Reflection On Gender

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Take-Home Three I have certainly conformed to numerous traditional gender roles. As a female I grew up in a culture where some female traditions included playing dress up, pretending to be a princess, and putting on makeup to look pretty. I have conformed to some of these cultural normality’s, and I have digressed from some of them. For example, I love what our culture considers girl colors. Also girly patterns and designs that most boys would scoff at. I love purples, pinks, sparkles, and anything pretty. I also love to gossip which is a behavior highly associated with girls. I do not enjoy sitting at home watching football and drinking beer on a Sunday. When it comes to playing sports though I find the girl part of me left behind. I am extremely competitive, and take losing very hard, and very seriously. I also love muscles, lifting, and the gym which is something males dominate in Observing my Dad has influenced my musical taste, taste in sports, and even ideas about life. These ideas have received so much positive feedback that it has become a part of me, and that is not something I was born with. It is something I was influenced by. So I associate the sporty side of me with my dad. Also from observing my mom I could see how girls were meant to act. She always had pretty jewelry, and pretty clothes that I loved, and was enormously influenced by. The media is also something that showed me gender roles, and even entertainment, and film. I looked up to the princesses in Disney movies, and dressed up like them, acted like them, and sometimes even talked like them. They taught me what it was to be a girl. Also I remember commercials of girls wearing pretty things, and makeup, and long beautiful hair. These types of influenced through media, family, television, books, and toys are what I think has contributed most to my gender role and how it has developed over

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