“Gender legitimates certain activities and ways of thinking over others” (Guerrero, 98). In other words gender roles create the basis of how we identify and stereotype people based on their actions relative to their sex. Do people refer to you as masculine, feminine, gay, normal? If so why do they refer to you as that, is it offensive, and why? Something can be defined by what it’s not especially masculinity considering society only offers you two acceptable genders. What it’s not is femininity. To be feminine is to be emotional, passive, and incompetent in almost everything but household tasks. The socialization that occurs within a patriarchal, capitalist society reflects these sexist notions. Boys wear blue. Girls wear pink. Boys
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If you deviate from these societal gender norms you 're immediately stripped of power and prestige and classified as not normal. Why? Because you are a threat to the hetero-patriarchal structure. Consequently, people are afraid to challenge the gender norms. In a patriarchal culture men are encouraged and fueled by their sense of entitlement to dominate and control females. Fearing personal violence and failure females conform to the compulsive systematic structure just to survive. The structure doesn 't welcome deviance. As shown in the satire comic Bitch Planet it doesn 't take much for a women to be classified as deviant, launching anyone as such off their, the founding fathers, planet. The social attitudes towards anyone aberrant of gender roles are further demoralizing. Deviating far out of the male-female gender role guidelines …show more content…
Individuals that identify as a gender disparate from girl or boy don’t even have a social assignment. Consequently they are outcasted, terrorized, and abhorred. “Heterosexual men fear that homosexuals sexual identity and behavior will bring down the entire system of male dominance” (Pharr, 1997). That fear drives the shunning and abuse of queer individuals. False generalizations that denounce queers status and power are encouraged, like “being gay is an illness” (Mohr, 1988). The shunning of the queer community is showcased in the documentary Paris is Burning (1990) when they discussed their definition of “realness”. They used realness to act like the gender they are perceived as to the public in public because they felt unsafe to act as their true selves; it was easier to pretend. Guerrero (2016) defined sexism as prejudice or discrimination based solely on someone’s sex, but I argue it goes beyond “solely sex” (p.100). The reality shown in Paris is Burning highlighted how sexism isn’t strictly relating to just male and female inequalities but is the infrastructure behind other social problems including heterosexism, homophobia, transphobia in which fuel
If you deviate from these societal gender norms you 're immediately stripped of power and prestige and classified as not normal. Why? Because you are a threat to the hetero-patriarchal structure. Consequently, people are afraid to challenge the gender norms. In a patriarchal culture men are encouraged and fueled by their sense of entitlement to dominate and control females. Fearing personal violence and failure females conform to the compulsive systematic structure just to survive. The structure doesn 't welcome deviance. As shown in the satire comic Bitch Planet it doesn 't take much for a women to be classified as deviant, launching anyone as such off their, the founding fathers, planet. The social attitudes towards anyone aberrant of gender roles are further demoralizing. Deviating far out of the male-female gender role guidelines …show more content…
Individuals that identify as a gender disparate from girl or boy don’t even have a social assignment. Consequently they are outcasted, terrorized, and abhorred. “Heterosexual men fear that homosexuals sexual identity and behavior will bring down the entire system of male dominance” (Pharr, 1997). That fear drives the shunning and abuse of queer individuals. False generalizations that denounce queers status and power are encouraged, like “being gay is an illness” (Mohr, 1988). The shunning of the queer community is showcased in the documentary Paris is Burning (1990) when they discussed their definition of “realness”. They used realness to act like the gender they are perceived as to the public in public because they felt unsafe to act as their true selves; it was easier to pretend. Guerrero (2016) defined sexism as prejudice or discrimination based solely on someone’s sex, but I argue it goes beyond “solely sex” (p.100). The reality shown in Paris is Burning highlighted how sexism isn’t strictly relating to just male and female inequalities but is the infrastructure behind other social problems including heterosexism, homophobia, transphobia in which fuel