CREATIVE PERSON
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Zoey Brooks, the protagonist of Zoey 101 (played by Jamie Lynn Spears) open my eyes into the world of creativity. She is adventurous as she is always keen on trying new things. Besides that, she has always been bold in all that she does and she does not allow the pressure to get to her in moments of tension. Knowing that the girls in her dorm felt disgusted and uncomfortable to have a male urinal in the bathroom, she decided to modify it in a feminine way which would cater to their needs. In the empathizing-systemizing (E-S) theory of sex differences in cognitive style, males are held to be characterized by a stronger systemizing or analytical style, whereas female boast a stronger empathizing style (Abraham et al 2016). Thus, it shows that Zoey (who’s a female) puts herself in other people’s shoes when she does things.
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Besides that, she made a key necklace for herself with her room key so that wouldn’t lose or forget her key anymore. This shows how the concept of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is used. If she were to leave it in her pocket or in her bag, there is a chance that her key could go missing. When it is around her neck, she knows that it is with her all the time.
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The athlete I chose is Natasha Watley. She is a professional softball player and the first African-American female to play on the USA softball team in the Olympics. She’s a former collegiate 4-time First Team All-American who played for the UCLA Bruins, the USA Softball Women’s National Team, and for the USSSA Pride. She helped the Bruins will multiple championships and also holds numerous records and one of the few players to bat at least .400 with 300 hits, 200 runs, and 100 stolen bases. She’s also the career hits leader in the National Pro Fast pitch. She won the gold medal in the 2004 summer Olympics and a silver in the Beijing Olympics. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
The transformation that takes place in the way in which the girl thinks about gender roles is not described directly as an issue of what is appropriate for men and women. Instead, the description is much more subtle, and almost a natural change that occurs in every person (Rasporich 130). It is this subtleness in the language causes the readers to not only feel sorry for the young girl, but to also think about their own views of gender
I was assigned to the female sex category at birth and raised as a girl; the very fact that I can state that simple statement and people can get a fairly clear idea how I was raised shows just how intertwined we are with the social construction of gender. Women can relate because they were probably raised in a similar fashion, and men know that they were raised differently than I was. This is one of the many ways our society supports Lorber’s claim that gender translates to a difference among the binary American society operates on (Lorber, pp. 47-48). My parents kept my hair long until I decided to donate it when I was 12 years old, my ears were pierced when I was 8 years old, and
which explains well how she had a finite amount of money and thought material wealth was more important than happiness. If she only knew before that she would spend the next decade working off her debt, she would have never asked for the necklace and she would have had a happy life. Furthermore, wealth isn’t the only thing that brings happiness to life. With an easy explanation, it explains how having material possessions doesn’t matter, because the moments we have are more valuable.
Seeing femininity as a social construct is important in understanding how it is controlled and shaped by society. This concept is
As meaning making creatures, humans attempt to categorize and definitively understand anything they observe. Although this crusade for understanding is not inherently bad, it often produces unintended negative consequences. As humans sort, classify, and define everything, they simultaneously place everything into a box that constricts creativity and fluidity. Concerning gender, these boxes create harmful conceptions of each person on the planet. Although these conceptions of gender are constructed and not “real” by any means, they have real implications in the process of socialization that influence how each person lives his/her life. In the United States, the commonly socialized “boxes” of gender have done a great
Gould explains that a life without the pressure of gender norms essentially frees a person to develop and mature with a lack of limitations. It is suggested that the idea that an individual’s sex should not matter until one might decide how they want to portray themselves. She recognizes that people may not understand or accept this life choice, but if one can live ignoring constant ridicule and criticism brought on by a society who value gender norms, they will ultimately be more well-rounded in all aspects of their life. (Gould, 1972) Richardson does not necessarily oppose Gould’s view, but rather focuses on how women specifically are negatively influenced by gender stereotyping. It is brought up that “Linguistic practice perpetuates in men their feelings of dominance over and responsibility for women.” (Richardson, 1981) While females are seen in society as dependent, incompetent, immature objects who are defined in terms of their relation to men, males are autonomous, independent beings who are defined primarily to the world of work. (Richardson, 1981) In Richardson’s view, gender stereotyping not only perpetuates hate and sexism towards women but also forces men to behave a certain way in order to uphold the patriarchy. This idea is so engrained in modern society that it would be difficult to raise a child in the idealistic way Gould
There are a variety of perspectives which are used in Gendered Worlds to examine gender. First, the androcentric perspective views male as being the moral norm. Creating this standard creates a society in which women are seen as deviant since in theory women do not fit the standard. Examples of this would be using words such as “mankind” or using “he” when talking about both females and males (Aulette, Wittner, p. 60). Another example would be using male-oriented words such as “guys” when referring to a classroom full of diverse students. Another perspective is gender polarization which refers to the way that diverse aspects of the human experience are linked to sex differences. Men are supposed to be withdrawn, unemotional, and dominating, while women are supposed to be emotionally submissive and irrational. Certain traits are imposed upon individuals because of their specific sex. If society had decided that pink was a color that was for males and blue for females then that would be the new social norm, and that would be the new characteristics of gender. An alternative viewpoint of gender would be essentialism which views gender as a fixed biological or psychological trait that does not vary among individuals over time. However, a female might start adopting behaviors that are considered masculine such as having short hair or walking with hands in the pockets to avoid the harassment she might encounter on the streets. This female would be doing gender according to
This article was written to bring attention to the way men and women act because of how they were thought to think of themselves. Shaw and Lee explain how biology determines what sex a person is but a persons cultures determines how that person should act according to their gender(Shaw, Lee 124). The article brings up the point that, “a persons gender is something that a person performs daily, it is what we do rather than what we have” (Shaw, Lee 126). They ...
Another way people are socialized into their gender is through cognition. This is a mental process that affects between the stimulus and the response of a person. For example, it plays a key role in our ability to talk, anticipate consequences, and make everyday observations. For the ability to talk, we can tell our daughter that we like it when she plays with dolls and we don’t like it when she plays with cars. This would be the
In many cultures around the world, males are encouraged to be self-assertive and to be able to manage their emotions. Girls on the other hand are encouraged to be social in order to express concern for others and to control their assertiveness. Girls tend to develop faster than boys in their language development. Gender differences on short-term memory tasks focus on differences in strategy use and the difference in women’s adaptation to tasks that require efficient retention of sequences (Kimura, 1999). Males tend to prefer action...
The book Delusions of Gender was written by Cordelia Fine in August of 2010. She was born in 1975 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout the years, she has attended Oxford, Cambridge and University College London to get her degrees in experimental psychology, criminology, and her PhD. Due to the fact that she is writing a book about the differences in how each of the sexes think, she has a bias because she is a female and she doesn’t have true insight on what a male has in their point of view. She wrote this novel to inform readers that there are differences and similarities between the genders of male and female and how each of their minds work. She says, in other words, when we are not thinking of ourselves as “male” or “female” our judgements are the same.
If a person grows up knowing more traditional roles they tend to have an internal struggle. This is very accurately portrayed in “The Starbucks Intervention” by Greg Bortnichak where a guy in his twenties struggles with his wanting to be a male feminist, but finds that his thoughts sometimes drift and he wonders if he is being exploitative of women. He begins with his own internal struggle “From the time I was 7 and too short to play ball with big kids, to the time I was 13 and too sensitive to party with the cool kids, to now when I struggle with masculinist ideology” Greg struggles with the societal norms to fit in and be masculine, behaviors are ingrained from birth on how kids should think and act. However, when people like Greg don’t match the norm they begin to question themselves and society. This is where true understanding and growth occurs since he is challenging himself to take in new information as well as breaking away from the norm. Greg working through these expectations gains empathy for the women’s perspective and how they must feel in a patriarchal society where he doesn’t even feel he fits. In Greg’s development he relates the difficulty of not fulfilling a masculine role he is expected to, but questions whether it hinders the empowerment of women if he fulfills it. He recounts an experience he has when his girlfriend visits
“Socialization is the process of learning one 's culture and how to live within it; how people adapt ideas about social roles from other members of their society” (Macionis 2013:62) In Besty Lucal’s (1999) article “What it means to be gendered me” she states that “We learn how to read people 's genders by learning which traits culturally signify each gender” Lucal tries not to do gender but sometimes she must. Gender roles are learned. When Lucal goes to the bathroom, she does not want to be mistaken as a man so she tightens up her shirt to show her breast. Although Lucal does not do gender, she still knows what is considered feminine and masculine. She learned gender roles through family and school. Teachers have different expectations for girls and boys behaviors in school. They may encourage and praise girls who act formally but when they are rowdy they may be punished more than boys would be if they were to act up. Schools may also have different uniforms for girls than
We may be personally responsible for our own misconceptions of gender and masculinity. Our actions about these topics speak louder than words. Sociologist, Ann Oakley argues that parents often mold their children around certain behaviors, with positive and negative consequences, to adhere to the standards that are socially acceptable. Oddly there is a strong back lash to this sort of treatment in females. In a study done conducted by Michael Messner, when asked who was a tomboy and who was a sissy as children, women raised their hands more often to identify with the tomboy image. The tomboy trait celebrates masculinity and restricts femininity. Often children explore many traits about themselves, as Allen explained to Pascoe, “When you’re younger…you’re a kid. You are wide open…You just do what you want” (Pascoe 118). Darnell, a football player, stated “Since you were little boys you’ve been told, ‘hey don’t be a little faggot’” (p 55). Darnell showcasing that males are conditioned very early like females about their roles of masculinity. These children are taught about how masculinity works. In the school Pascoe researched, a faculty member, Mr. Ford, reminded males students through his reply to a backhanded comment made to him from another student that men should engage in sexual actives with women, not men. Another...