Just like anything else in society we have placed gender in to
two boxes, male and female, based on biological sex. We learned that sex is
based on the biology of the person what bits they were born with and that
gender is the personal traits that are attached to being either male or female.
Before you are even born you are placed into these boxes and are socially
constructed to act the part of that gender. You are born in to the roles that
society wants you to act out.
Boys are expected to like the color blue, play rough and to not
show emotions. Girls are expected to like the color pink, play nicely and to be
emotional. The color schem starts right from birth if you are a boy you are put
into a blue blanket and if you are a girl you are put into a pink blanket. As a
side not when my brother was born the hospital ran out of blue blankets and
they ended up having to put him in a pink blanket. Since we are programed that
pink is for girls people would say to mom “oh what a cute girl you have” the
first few she would correct then after a while she would just say “yea isn't she.” This goes to show that we base the sex/gender on the color of the
blanket. Once we are categorized we are then programmed to “do gender”
When we run into people who do not fit these categories we
become confused. If someone is ambiguous, meaning there are no indications to
what sex/gender they are, we try to put them into the male/female categories. We
want everyone to fit perfectly in the image that we have of how things should
be.
Recently I came across and add for push-up bras and since I don’t
want to ruin the add I am going to end my discussion here and let you watch for
yourself and see what you think.
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