Gender Construction

Society plays a big role in constructing the gender of a female and male. Do we become who we are as individuals because we are born a female and male or do we accumulate traits as we grow up? As we grow up we are expected to do certain things as part of our gender rule. In today's society, Mass media production like magazines, video games, movies, and clothing influences many young males and females. Heteronormativity is the view that emphasizes the difference between a man and woman. As an assumption that we know what men and women are is an assumption that male and females are cultural constructions. Gender, sexuality and reproduction are created as symbols that we as society have given a meaning to, but also being biologically
According to west and Zimmerman, gender is not a personal trait it's an emergent feature of social situations both as an outcome of an rationale for various social arrangements. (Zimmerman). Femininity and masculinity are prototypes of essential expression. Heterosexuality is assumed for those who acts appropriately according to their gender and otherwise for those who don't. We all have done it assumed that someone is gay because of how they act even if they are a male with male parts or if a girl is homosexual because of how she dresses. We as a joke tend to call someone gay or a fag because of how they engage in behavior outside the gender norm. We have symbols to distinguish the difference of male and female. We are biologically known as female and male because the woman can reproduce with a male only, but the roles expectations, and rules are what we socially construct. Anthropologists have allowed the naturalistic bias to dominate the field of sex and gender. We have different bodies and are used to giving stereotypes or living by them, we then learn the gender conforming behaviors as we go on living our lives and with distinct motives which we shape, but we also can't disagree that the different hormones is what causes gender construction to be innate. A study showed that young male rats and monkeys were injected with female hormones and yes, this proved that sex hormones revealed that they affect social play and that the notion gender is biological, but not the gender rules an example is in the 16th century in europe aristocratic men wore elaborate high heeled shoes to demonstrate their wealth. In western cultures women did not begin to wear high heeled shoes until the 19th century, but if this was seen now they would assumed to be gay because of society's stereotypes and gender rules. Another example is the Wodaabe men in ceremonies to attract their wife use makeup to show off