Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Men are... Women are...
This was one of the topic for today's tutorial, gender stereotypes. I wrote albeit a little crude, or rather very crude, it's not my style to submit crude stuff to teachers but i found that it was the best way to get the point across. Basically what the tutor wanted to know was what is your perception of men and women, also your perceptions of gender roles. What i wrote:
Men are biologically born with a penis and women are biologically born with breasts and a vagina. And that's all i perceive of men and women because i found that i had a hard time trying to define the gender roles, so many things are beyond definition. A human is not a peg that you can try to fit into a hole. And gender roles especially in this age and time, it definitely exists, but it's slowly shifting, you see a blurring of lines. That the labels and traits we perceive as male and female are no longer the same, now it's all thrown into the same pool, men or women, you can reach into it and pick up 'sensitive', 'housekeeper', 'breadwinner', etc and attach it to yourself and we won't be able to define you as a man or woman for sure. The probabilities are now more 70-30. However as times move on these lines will blur further and things will be different. We are finally challenging the rules that society has set, and passed down by tradition. However at the end of the day it's just people placing rules for others. Many other implications but that's all i wanna talk for today. I've got a bf i wanna call, so you guys just have to wait and be patient.Afterall patience is a virtue ;p
Unknown at 12:11 am