Jhulio Vargas Gender Identity Project Draft

Gender Identity project 06092020

My Gender Analysis

I grew up in a two-parent household with my brother and my sister where the men have always pictured as the head of the family. My father did not cook or clean; he only worked. On the other hand, my mother worked too and did all the cooking, cleaning while also bringing money to the table and taking care of us. Unfortunately, she was never seen as a strong contributor to the family, although she was doing more. All because she is a woman. Despite the fact that some people think that men shouldn’t be cooking or cleaning because that is known to be women’s duties. I know that as a society we can progress, by accepting that we are all equal. Women and men are both capable of doing the same jobs. A lot of this programing is created by generations after generations and it is shown through stereotypes and lack of knowledge.

Furthermore, after learning and reading the material in this class I started to understand a lot more about the programing of my own identity by my parent and society. For example, I remember that as a kid, every time my brother and I fell or got injured, my parent will say, “stop crying, be a man,” or “stop crying be a boy.” I didn’t realize that this communication between my parent and me was building my gender identity. I grew up thinking that men are not week, that men don’t cry, but all that was how they perceive gender and probably without them noticing they were passing it down to me. Also, I remember my dad saying that boy are not supposed to wear skirt or even dye their hair because that was for women. Again portraying the steriotipe in his mindset. According to the Sex, Gender, Sexuality Interlace diagram Sex could be explored or perceive through your biological, anatomical, and physiological characteristics. Biological is the standard way in which babies are identified at their birth moment. That’s when I realize that my parent viewed gender in a very biological way.  I grew up thinking that because I was a boy I was intended to act extreme, battle when being disregarded, play sports more regularly than tag . My sister on the other hand is treated differently. My parent had a binary perspective os sex and gender that it was inherit by their pass generation they belived that the sex you was boin as is your destined sex. This view neglects to represent human intercession. We, as people, need to understand that we affect the social courses of action of society.

Growing up I thought that people that identify themselves as other and not as a male of female was incorrect because of the mindset I grew up with. We, as members of society, need to understand gender binary because, when it comes to sexuality, society tends to have a binary gender perspective and denounce other possibilities. It assumes that only men and women exist, not considering gender diversity and not considering the presence of people who do not identify as men or women. Gender, sexuality is neither binary nor fixed. There are straight individuals and gay individuals, yet individuals, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, queer, and heteroflexible. That is how the Sex, Gender, Sexuality Interlace” diagram depicts sex and gender. For example, in society, the programming of sex and gender begins even before a baby is born, you see parents say things like if I have a boy, he will be treated like a king or if it is a girl she will be treated like a queen. This picture the mindset that immediately is created when we think of a specific sex, and we start to quickly attach the different ways we should be treating a human base on sex. This can be recognized by society as your destined sex. This view neglects to represent human intercession. Furthermore, understanding that there is not just to sexual identity bring comprehension to understand the issues with inequality. People identity can be varied, and it is different for everyone, and it is diverse for each individual. Our identity s formed by a wide range of experiences that we all have in life. That is why if we want a more inclusive and fairer world, we need to stop the culturally dominant binary model that neglects to precisely accept the wide variety of sexual and gender lived experiences.

According to Theories of gender/sex; I found out about the speculations of sexual orientation and sex. Analysts utilize these theories to clarify where the different perspective on sexual orientation originates from. For example, we can perceive gender and sex through the lenses of these three theories, biological, psychological, and critical/ cultural. These theories have a tremendous impact on the way we identify our self’s, especially when we try to justify our features. For example, when you see yourself through the lens of the biological theory, we tend to say, “ I was born with whatever biological features, and it’s unchangeable.”Furthermore, the psychological theory and the Critical/ cultural theory go hand in hand. Psychological theory focus on the internal development triggered by early childhood experience. Critical/ culture is how gender is viewed in different cultures. For example, the ideas of women being home caretakers and men being the provider invite simplistic comparisons that rely on stereotypes to define how women should be perceived in society. These theories emphasize that by the way we communicate, we can construct norms that physiologically can impact the way we see sex and gender and even the way we identify ourselves. Also, we attached to our cultural identity and later on enforced by how we communicate in society. We as humans need to be more aware of how human intercession can impact selves identity and norms. The outer influence of an individual should define no body’s character, but from within. Society has created a lot of stereotypes. No girl or boy should be growing up thinking that boys are not week, and that women are week—all for a better world.

Social learning theory, biological theory, and psychological advancement are compelling in deciding how we think and perceive sex. These speculations were the brain behind the experiences, which molded the manner in which I consider sex. My goal is to continue to expand my mindset on gender/ sex and understand that most of our belives is based on a paradigm. It is basically a mental program that has almost exclusive control over our habitual behavior.