blog post #2 "Night To His Day"

The categorization of the gender starts as soon as a baby is born and continues as the baby grows. From the moment we are born we are treated differently according to our genders. If a girl, she is taught all the traits of her gender and boys are brought up according to traits of their gender. As the author tells about her son, bobby, who acted in a class play when he was eight, they had to be squares and circles, all the girls in it were wearing make up but not the boys, when asked , the replies that bobby is a powerful boy and didn’t want to wear makeup, so other boys followed him. So it proves that gender groups are influence more by the same gender leader, as the girls listened to the female teacher and boys to their leader boy. This comes to us naturally that we differentiate people’s gender by their outlook. Like Judith Lorber says in her book, Paradoxes of Genders, “A sex category becomes a gender status through naming, dress, and the use of other gender markers.” We try to judge people based on their dressing and looks which we may not always guess correctly. In our society we have many cross dressers known as transvestites who act as the opposite gender. In our daily routine we observe peoples’ actions and behaviors and try to figure their gender through it even if it’s not intentional. Our genders give us a social status along with knowing what is expected of us. These days, we can see that typical image of genders has been changing. In early days there was no concept of male nannies or pilot women etc.  The standards and concepts of genderism are changing over time.