Gender, basically defined, means not someone’s sex, but their sexuality. The way in which people act. For instance, if a woman is nurturing, sympathetic, domestic, emotional, and involved in her appearance, she is feminine; she is female. On the other hand, when a man acts strong, tough, industrial, and rugged, he is masculine; he is male. It is not mandatory that a man has to be masculine and a female feminine; however, our society makes it difficult to act in any other way. As Peter Livesey wrote, the origin of these societal norms needs to be found in order for them to be broken. This means that until we can break the media, government, and religion from making people feel that their sex must be in accordance with their gender, people ar

e still going to continue to characterize people and look down upon those who go against the “norm.”

One of the most common gender norms is that the female must be the domestic one. That is, she must take care of the children because she is nurturing, and she is also expected to cook and clean. The patriarchal figure is the male, and this does not normally include being nurturing. While there are males who go against the norm and stay home and take care of the children and other domestic duties, it is not as common. In “A Cultural Studies Approach to Gender, Race, and Class in Media,” women’s reasoning for choosing certain romance novels over others is explained. Dines describes that some women choose novels, which contain a nurturing male character, when one is absent from their real lives. Furthermore, she suggests that the reason why there are women who spend a lot of their free time reading is to escape from the expectations of their families to be the domestic caretakers. These actions help to

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