Dismantling Gender Hierarchies: Being Authentic Self
Dismantling gender hierarchies: being Authentic Self
Gender hierarchies are caused by social construction. Social norms embedded in the Guy Code confine young men in a small social circle with limited gender roles options based on the concept of masculinity. Such idea has been demonstrated in ‘“Bros Before Hos’: The Guy Code” written by Michael Kimmel. Kimmel argues that males are only allowed to adopt an imposed gender identity prescribed by the Guy Code. If young men go beyond of the male boundary, they will be reward with ridicule and scorn. However, Aaron Devor explains that gender identity from a broader horizon than Kimmel and introduces an idea of mediated gender identity that is able to potentially erase the systemetic power of gender discrimination in “Becoming Members of Society Learning the Social Meanings of Gnder”. Not only young men, but everybody absorbs the ideas from common senses and particular persons with closed relationships to identify themselves. Those ideas of gender roles are based on popular conceptions of femininity and masculinity. However, it would be better for us to consider characterizing femininity and masculinity as two different personal characteristics indiscriminately. Therefore, to some extent, gender hierarchies do not necessarily exist. Through encouraging males and females to decide their favorite gender roles equally, gender hierarchies will be thoroughly erased. Therefore males and females will have more freedom to act as authentic selves in a new era.
Social norms and pressure skew and limit male and female behaviors. Kimmel explains that the Boy Code which is the social norm for boys limits emotional expressions of young men when boys grow older. In the “ ‘Bros Before Hos’ :the Guy Code”, he states that “[w]hen they turn to anger and violence it is because these, they belive, perhaps rightly, are the only acceptable forms of emotional expression allowed them” (616). Since the Boy Code restricts set up rules of
Gender hierarchies are caused by social construction. Social norms embedded in the Guy Code confine young men in a small social circle with limited gender roles options based on the concept of masculinity. Such idea has been demonstrated in ‘“Bros Before Hos’: The Guy Code” written by Michael Kimmel. Kimmel argues that males are only allowed to adopt an imposed gender identity prescribed by the Guy Code. If young men go beyond of the male boundary, they will be reward with ridicule and scorn. However, Aaron Devor explains that gender identity from a broader horizon than Kimmel and introduces an idea of mediated gender identity that is able to potentially erase the systemetic power of gender discrimination in “Becoming Members of Society Learning the Social Meanings of Gnder”. Not only young men, but everybody absorbs the ideas from common senses and particular persons with closed relationships to identify themselves. Those ideas of gender roles are based on popular conceptions of femininity and masculinity. However, it would be better for us to consider characterizing femininity and masculinity as two different personal characteristics indiscriminately. Therefore, to some extent, gender hierarchies do not necessarily exist. Through encouraging males and females to decide their favorite gender roles equally, gender hierarchies will be thoroughly erased. Therefore males and females will have more freedom to act as authentic selves in a new era.
Social norms and pressure skew and limit male and female behaviors. Kimmel explains that the Boy Code which is the social norm for boys limits emotional expressions of young men when boys grow older. In the “ ‘Bros Before Hos’ :the Guy Code”, he states that “[w]hen they turn to anger and violence it is because these, they belive, perhaps rightly, are the only acceptable forms of emotional expression allowed them” (616). Since the Boy Code restricts set up rules of