Gender Stereotypes Affecting People's Identity

Identity is who a person is. Identity is a complexly layered subject that allows people to either distinguish one from others, or generally organize a group of people who have similarities. Identity is made up of a lot of factors, but the most influential factor has to be gender. Gender, traditionally, is being categories only to male and female. People tend to identify male as a person that has a male sexual organ and vice versa for female. Usually, male is more masculine, strong, work and tends to stay out of home more; while female is more feminine, weak, taking care of the home and taking care of children and stay home more often than male. In the past there is a huge amount of stereotype towards both sexes. People usually are identified …show more content…
The most obvious example is that when a person is filling in a form, the sex column is usually on the top of the form and is required to fill in. This proves that gender is important to identify one person, or else the sex column will be put lower in the form, which also means that it is less important. More and more forms are changing their form into “Gender” column as there are different between the word “sex” and the word “gender”. Sex is a biological term that identifies a person base on their biological characteristics; Gender is how a person (psychologically) identifies or expresses …show more content…
This has created a huge ripple effect in the United States, a lot of people are happy that the LGBT community has finally being viewed more seriously. The LGBT community has been around for a long time and has been more and more open to the general public as people are more open to changes. This actually benefits human identity. As this allows more people to have a correct identity for themselves. If gender not important to a person’s identity, there won’t be LGBT community and the legalization of same-sex marriage wouldn’t have such a large attention that it bombards all the social media and even affects Facebook to create the Celebrate Pride event (which was been participated by 8% of US population). This can show how important gender is towards the society. Society is made up of different individuals. If they don’t have their correct identity in that particular society, they will feel out of place. This will lower the unity of a society; hence a person’s identity is important to a society. Therefore legalization of same-sex marriage is an example of how much the society is concerned about people’s gender. And gender is also important to a person’s