My New Perspectives On Gender Essay

My New Perspective on Gender After reading and pondering on the question of what gender is, my belief is that gender determines what is expected, allowed, and valued in a “man” or “woman.” But now in hindsight, I would have to say that I am so confused about “what gender is.” There are a myriad of viewpoints or ideas about gender and to be honest I can relate to most of them, but I do not necessarily agree with all the perspectives that I have read. I have learned that before you make a stand about something, you should have done some serious research. I stated in my Think Piece that the definition of gender depends on whose perspective you get it from, which I still believe but Webster’s states that gender is the fact or condition of being a male or a female human being, esp. with regard to how this affects or determines a person’s self-image, social status, goals, etc. I believe that men can be better nurtures than some women and they can be just as emotional. And on the flip side of the coin, some women are just as aggressive, domineering, and as physically strong as men; like they have had an overdose of testosterone. The feminist perspective, that gender is socially created, is another thing that I’m
Sex is clearly something we are stuck with. Gender is something we stick ourselves with.” I am inclined to agree with her about us being stuck with whatever sex that genetics decided we would be. But there again is that gender thing; Kaitlin says that “we stick ourselves with our gender.” The feminist perspective begins with the assumption that gender is socially created, rather than determined. It is generated within the context of a particular social and economic structure. They view gender, in part, as a set of social expectations that is transmitted through a process of social learning. Are all of the above one and the