Category: Gender

Revolutionary Road was a profound movie. This film portrays the malaise that had lied behind the American Dream during the mid-1950s. During that era, the image of the nuclear family living in suburbia where the man is the bread-winner and the woman as the domesticated housewife was considered as the dominant idea constructed by a…

Society plays a role in prescribe appropriate and inappropriate behavior. How a man and a woman are supposed to dress are unwritten codes of behavior that most people tend to follow. Cross-dressers represent a group that is defiant of established norms as they opt to dress in ways contrary to their gender assignment. Further controversy…

I began this Sociology class thinking that I was not going to enjoy and love Sociology, and I still do not enjoy and love Sociology. I actually prefer Psychology over Sociology. I was taught some things in this Sociology class that I would enjoy and love to share with you within this reflective essay, also…

In our generation today, there can be some common confusion on gender and sexual orientation. It was once believed that gender was determined by the genitals you were born with, however, in this day of age there is much more behind it. Although we are all born with either male or female gentiles there is…

Sixty-seven years ago, Christine Jorgenson, one of the first documented transgender individuals in the world at the time, began gender reassignment surgery. One might have predicted this extraordinary event to facilitate a process of societal acceptance and validation for future transgenders living in the United States over the next half century. Instead, the ensuing decades…

Few people are in favor of adding gender identity to Anti-Discrimination Law (ADL)as I do. By adding gender identity to ADL, it helps at least LGBT people to live calmly, helps our entire community to develop and protect people from prejudice, which helps everybody to treat equally. As the phrase “gender identity” defined as “…

Gender identity is basically the feeling that a man has of themselves as male or female. It is additionally the way in which a man’s culture distinguishes the individual in view of elucidation and experience of organic abilities about the human body. As per these understandings, there are sure societal desires for conduct, parts, and…

Before going to the transgender workshop, I have already had a mindset of gender stereotype and I have never thought of accepting the sexual minorities like trans and homosexual people. I was raised in a traditional and conservative family that my parents showed me that a man should be the head of the family because…

According to mainstream standards, gender is either of the two sexes, when considered concerning cultural and social differences. Gender is important in mainstream societies as it is what allows us to determine who is allowed to do what and how they are allowed to do it, whatever “it” maybe. Gender allows males and females to…

In the essay “On a Lesbian Relationship with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight” by Suzanne G. Cusick, she brings up an interesting topic about the connection between her being a lesbian and her being a musician, a musicologist, if there exists any. I’m especially interested in the “power system” and the link…