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Gender Role Development

Gender Role Development I am a man, or maybe I’m a male, no wait I am a guy, although my parents still call me a boy, unless you ask an old person then I am a young man. Frankly, I don’t know, understand, or care what I am because most importantly I’m me. My generation has numerous problems and some of the most pressing issues involve sex and gender. It appears we have some confusion on who’s what and why, and I can see why this confusion exists we have some males wearing women’s apparel and some females who are only females because of their lack of a penis. When asked the question what was the difference between sex and gender I immediately thought my roommate was about to tell me a dirty joke. Once I realized that I was in class when I heard this statement I decided to research this topic out. To my surprise there is a difference in sex and gender. I now understand sex is from a biological standpoint, whereas gender refers to the role a society places on a particular sex. What I originally believed was the set-up for a dirty joke turned out to be a lesson learned. What surprised me most about the term sex was the connotation it received when spoken aloud. I find it interesting that a word used in the place of the word intercourse actually has more to do with biology. I feel I am a pretty normal male for my society. I have a tremendous amount of pride. I enjoy sports and eating ungodly amounts of gut bombing food while watching television. I also feel I am a member of the superior sex and just better overall than most women. On the other hand, I feel I possess some qualities that on a gender level are considered feminine. I am a good listener. I am compassionate. I am a romantic. I enjoy cooking, and feel obligated to clean when I get the chance. I like to dress nice and smell good. I also am observant of small things. My mother had the biggest influence on my better gender traits, while my father influenced the less appealing ones. My parents weren’t very stereotypical in their gender roles. My dad was the emotional one he was much more apt to crying and also getting angry. My mother was the more logical parent. She also was the leader of the house. She pretty well told my dad who, what, where, when, and how. My mother also takes care of the finances, although my dad is the major breadwinner. My dad was also the non-confrontational parent. I feel I am a good blend of my parents. I seemed to have inherited and learned most of their good traits without taking on their bad ones. In school I was the a-typical boy. I was around a lot of boys when I was young mainly due to participation in sports. When I got out of the athletic crowd I got into the artsy crowd. Through my high school years due to the crowd of girls and non-Neanderthal guys I hang around I was wrote off as a homosexual by people who didn’t know me. In my school any guy who participated in speech and drama was pretty much thought of as queer. Unfortunately what the guys who wrote me off as homosexual failed to see was that being in drama meant spending time around numerous beautiful talented young girls, and not only that the boy to girl ratio at speech tournaments was about 3 to 1 favoring the girls, which turned out to be pretty good odds even for a fat kid. In high school my best friend Jason McMurray was very feminine. He, like me, was written off as queer. Jason and I were really close, so close that we lived together one summer at CASC in the Upward Bound Math/Science program. Jason had told me that in his early childhood he had been molested by his uncle and ever since then he had weird sexual feelings. I never felt strange being around Jason because I knew him so well. During school he took a little more heat and teasing about being homosexual. It always made him very upset. We both went to CASC after high school and in his second semester he started running around with some active homosexuals. With just two month’s left in his second semester he dropped out and moved in with his liberal aunt who had accepted his new life style. Being so close to someone and hearing the conflict he went through internally about correct sexual patterns influenced my behavior significantly. Jason is one of the principal reasons I believe homosexuality is wrong. I feel due to his broken home, unstable rising, and the unrelenting teasing he endured during his adolescent years helped push him into a homosexual lifestyle. Going through my teasing in high school and being Jason’s friend has shown me how it is important to be yourself without selling yourself out by giving in to untrue stereotypes. I have always enjoyed what are called “guy movies”. I have always admired professional athletes. I have always valued the way most good leaders carry themselves. The characteristics of nobility, collectiveness, work ethic, and strength are presented numerous times in all of these areas of life. I feel these characteristics are the characteristics that the ideal man should have. I also understand there are other important qualities one must possess to be a good father, husband provider, and man, but to me these four characteristics are a must for every gender. I believe I possess all these qualities, but I don’t exactly have the proper quantity on all of them yet. I have many goals in my life, but I know if I work on being noble, always keep myself collected, work hard, and show strength both mentally and physically all my goals will come my way. In conclusion I feel society needs to decide collectively what is a males role and what is a females role. Personally I am not confused on what my role in life is, but my role doesn’t fit every body’s status quo. I have a tendency to be very chivalries about gender roles. I believe men should put women on the pedestal they were born for, but without excluding them from life. The thing gender roles of the past have done is to limit to many things to just one gender, but the happy medium will be found when we figure out the essentials of what is male and female and let everything left over fall as it may. Bibliography:

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