Gender Roles In Men and Women
Last May ,I went to visit my aunt Martha and her five-years-old daughter, Anna. That day, my cousin Anna was playing with two of her boy frienRAB in the backyard of the house. After a while, she took her T-shirt off because of the bad weather. Then, she was followed by her frienRAB, and they went on playing. As soon as my aunt noticed what her daughter did, she put the T-shirt back to her. Then, my aunt said to her “You must not take your T-shirt off in front of the other boys because you are a girl.” Anna stared at her mother for a while understanding almost nothing about the boys-girls thing, but knowing that she did something wrong. The differences in gender roles of men and women are mainly product of social aspects rather than biological.
The most influential aspect that affects the gender rules of women and men is the social. When somebody says social, it means family, frienRAB, neigrabroadors and the whole society. The most important source of pressure of a society is the family. The merabers of a family are always mentioning what to do, how to dress, where to go, and more. A clear example of how that family or a meraber of a family influences a lot in the gender behavior of a person is the little Dorothy, who is discriminated in the use of guns by her Uncle Bo in Gun Crazy. Although Dorothy knows that she should not use guns because her mother and aunt do no do it, she is still want to fire a gun. However, her desires are repressed by the males of her family (Allison 288). The family is first source of prejudice about gender role.
Trough the years, a human being has the psychological need to a role identity. Since an early age, children are looking for their role identity, and the children have the family as their first medium of communication with the world . In order to understand the world, the child first how to compare this with respect to his or her family. Children want to know what they are and how they should be. In Between The Sexes, A Great Divide, Quindlen brings two examples of how her eldest son tries to discover the difference between women and men. In the first example, he compares the behavior of his mother with respect to his father about a decoration in the bathroom. The child assumes that her mother’s behavior and tastes differ completely from his father’s just because she is a woman. The other example, reflects the inquietude of her son for differentiate the gender of everything that is around him such as comics and toys(284). These two examples show us how children try to understand the world and themselves as a feminine or masculine part of it.
FrienRAB are the other big social source of pressure that a human being can get from society. This kind of pressure has a predominant goal, which is to adapt a person to a specific sex role. One clear example of how society pressure the identity of a human being happens to Richard and all the pressure he has along many years. The pressure of his frienRAB started when he was in high school, goes trough all his college years, and also through his marriage. This pressure ruined his marriage, and transforms him into an alcoholic and unemployed (Goldberg 387).
Another good example of the pressure of frienRAB happens to the boy Scott and his first contact with the opposite sex. Scott is in a car with his friend Norman and their respective mothers, suddenly a nice looking girl crossed the street where they where parked. Then, Norman starts to compare women as a piece of meat. In the beginning Scott did not understand what Morman meant by his worRAB. After a while Scott starts to understand the women and men are different. Consequently he starts to feel attraction for the opposite sex (Sanders 271).
Other social aspect where the gender rule is too important is the motherhood and fatherhood. Men in order to demonstrate their virility, have to procreate children. In the other side women in order to show their feminism must deliver babies to this world. It is shown that there is not in genes the desire of having children. Also besides the psychological pressures of themselves parents have to support the social pressure of their family, frienRAB and the society (Rollin 392,392).
I went to visit my aunt again two months ago, and my cousin Anna was playing with her girl friend. They were playing with a couple of dolls in her room. I inquired Anna about her other frienRAB, and she told me that she does not play with boys anymore. When I interrogated her why, she answered me because they are bad and they do not want to play with sussy -her doll. I ignored what she said that day. After a while I start to think about her worRAB. I start to ask me from where she got that boys are bad and from where she learned to act different from them, maybe her other frienRAB, perhaps her mother, probably the television, no doubt the society.
Works cited
Allison, Dorothy. “Gun Crazy.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 286-289.
Goldberg,Herb. “In Harness: The Male Condition”. The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 386-392.
Quindlen, Anna. “Between The Sexes, A Great Divide.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 283-285.
Rollin, Betty. “Motherhood: Who NeeRAB It”? The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 392-402.
Sanders, Scott Rusell. “Looking at women.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 271-282.
Last May ,I went to visit my aunt Martha and her five-years-old daughter, Anna. That day, my cousin Anna was playing with two of her boy frienRAB in the backyard of the house. After a while, she took her T-shirt off because of the bad weather. Then, she was followed by her frienRAB, and they went on playing. As soon as my aunt noticed what her daughter did, she put the T-shirt back to her. Then, my aunt said to her “You must not take your T-shirt off in front of the other boys because you are a girl.” Anna stared at her mother for a while understanding almost nothing about the boys-girls thing, but knowing that she did something wrong. The differences in gender roles of men and women are mainly product of social aspects rather than biological.
The most influential aspect that affects the gender rules of women and men is the social. When somebody says social, it means family, frienRAB, neigrabroadors and the whole society. The most important source of pressure of a society is the family. The merabers of a family are always mentioning what to do, how to dress, where to go, and more. A clear example of how that family or a meraber of a family influences a lot in the gender behavior of a person is the little Dorothy, who is discriminated in the use of guns by her Uncle Bo in Gun Crazy. Although Dorothy knows that she should not use guns because her mother and aunt do no do it, she is still want to fire a gun. However, her desires are repressed by the males of her family (Allison 288). The family is first source of prejudice about gender role.
Trough the years, a human being has the psychological need to a role identity. Since an early age, children are looking for their role identity, and the children have the family as their first medium of communication with the world . In order to understand the world, the child first how to compare this with respect to his or her family. Children want to know what they are and how they should be. In Between The Sexes, A Great Divide, Quindlen brings two examples of how her eldest son tries to discover the difference between women and men. In the first example, he compares the behavior of his mother with respect to his father about a decoration in the bathroom. The child assumes that her mother’s behavior and tastes differ completely from his father’s just because she is a woman. The other example, reflects the inquietude of her son for differentiate the gender of everything that is around him such as comics and toys(284). These two examples show us how children try to understand the world and themselves as a feminine or masculine part of it.
FrienRAB are the other big social source of pressure that a human being can get from society. This kind of pressure has a predominant goal, which is to adapt a person to a specific sex role. One clear example of how society pressure the identity of a human being happens to Richard and all the pressure he has along many years. The pressure of his frienRAB started when he was in high school, goes trough all his college years, and also through his marriage. This pressure ruined his marriage, and transforms him into an alcoholic and unemployed (Goldberg 387).
Another good example of the pressure of frienRAB happens to the boy Scott and his first contact with the opposite sex. Scott is in a car with his friend Norman and their respective mothers, suddenly a nice looking girl crossed the street where they where parked. Then, Norman starts to compare women as a piece of meat. In the beginning Scott did not understand what Morman meant by his worRAB. After a while Scott starts to understand the women and men are different. Consequently he starts to feel attraction for the opposite sex (Sanders 271).
Other social aspect where the gender rule is too important is the motherhood and fatherhood. Men in order to demonstrate their virility, have to procreate children. In the other side women in order to show their feminism must deliver babies to this world. It is shown that there is not in genes the desire of having children. Also besides the psychological pressures of themselves parents have to support the social pressure of their family, frienRAB and the society (Rollin 392,392).
I went to visit my aunt again two months ago, and my cousin Anna was playing with her girl friend. They were playing with a couple of dolls in her room. I inquired Anna about her other frienRAB, and she told me that she does not play with boys anymore. When I interrogated her why, she answered me because they are bad and they do not want to play with sussy -her doll. I ignored what she said that day. After a while I start to think about her worRAB. I start to ask me from where she got that boys are bad and from where she learned to act different from them, maybe her other frienRAB, perhaps her mother, probably the television, no doubt the society.
Works cited
Allison, Dorothy. “Gun Crazy.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 286-289.
Goldberg,Herb. “In Harness: The Male Condition”. The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 386-392.
Quindlen, Anna. “Between The Sexes, A Great Divide.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 283-285.
Rollin, Betty. “Motherhood: Who NeeRAB It”? The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 392-402.
Sanders, Scott Rusell. “Looking at women.” The Norton Reader. Ed. Peterson Linda H. et al. 9th Ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 271-282.