This class made me more aware of gender ideologies, and how
it seems that as a society, we hold on to stereotypes about men and women that are
not always true. We classify people according to male or female, and many times
it is difficult to move past that category because of the way people view
others according to their gender. I also saw how gender is a societal
construction, fiercely upheld by society: from the way fathers discourage their
sons from playing with toys that may be feminine in any way, to how men
discourage undesirable behaviors by calling them gay. These types of thoughts
are everywhere and the only way to escape them is to realize they are present
and try to change our outlooks on them. The problem is that most people do not
even realize they possess these ideologies because they are so engrained in us
from birth that they seem natural, or even biological, not socially
constructed.
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