Sunday, December 4, 2011

Masculinity vs. Femininity

In my sociology class, we're studying about men compare to women. what I found out that was very interesting about that class was that, kids start to developed their gender identity. But when your still a fetus it is still undetermined to tell whether your a boy or girl, so you don't get the sense of identity yet.  In process of them growing up they don't know whether they are boys or girls until the age of 4 to 5 years old. Usually kids learn their gender identity also from their parents, siblings and the people around them.

 Example if a little girl was mostly around her brothers, uncles and father only, she can developed an cycle of masculine. That mean she can be tomboy and do things boys would but her outside looking like a girl. It's okay for a girl to be tomboy because they can soon realize what they really are and turn out to be more feminine when they are around more woman figure. It's basically all on influence of seeing another gender teach, do or show them to be the way they think they are until they hit an certain age of maturity to understand their body feature.

But If you were a boy and like to play dress up or wear makeup then that makes you look bad because a girl can upraised her status but a boy cannot downgrade or lower his status, it would make him look bad and people would look down on him. Boys are suppose to be strong, brave, and aggressive to make themselves masculine but if they were to look like they were strong but act sweet, gentle and sensitive it would make them look weakling.

In my perceptive, I have cousins and friends who are gay and lesbian who I don't treat any of them differently from heterosexual. I think it's bad for the community to judge a person from it's outside, because it's not like they want to be that kind of person; it just happen. I think we people should really take the time to understand homosexual of others because it can bring the society to more peace than hatred. People discriminating one another can not reunite any peacetime, so I think it's better that people understand those before making a bad comment.

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