Blog 1

1a. A new and different perspective that I agree with is something that Lorder and Moore point out in Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives. They point out that men and women try to shape all aspects of their lives for example body, style, and posture into whatever their corresponding assigned gender. They try to show femininity or masculinity through their body, for example women try to be thin and curvy and men try to be tall, muscular. I never made the connection that people did this because we think it was our gender is supposed to look like. But in reality that is the only reason we change ourselves is because of our ideas of what our gender is suppose to look like.

1b. Something that was really meaningful to myself was what Lorber points out in “Night to His Day” The Social Construction of Gender . She says how human females can become husbands and vise versa without a surgery just as human infants can become reign as kings or queens. This statement is so meaningful because many men and women do this subconscience there are my single mothers and fathers that have to play both roles with their children. The comparison that is made with infants and kings and queens is good because playing both mother and father is not planed it is just assigned without a choice just as kings and queens are assigned.

2a. Something that I can really relate with my own life experiences is what Wichins points out in A Continuous Nonverbal Communication when she says that gender is primarily a system of symbols and meanings with are rules and privileges and punishments pertaining to masculinity and femininity. I notice these punishments and discrimination within my own family, for example, I have women in my family who are looked down a pond on because they have had many relationships, also because they do not correspond that cookie-cutter persona that their gender should look like.