Gender Switch
Ricardo Navarro
During this assignment, I learned many new things about the opposite genders view on life. I am a male and my interviewee is a female. I know she does not represent all females but her ideas were very interesting. She felt as if her life would be extremely different in some areas of life and not much different in others. For example, if she was born a boy then her father would push her pursue stereotypical male majors. Right now she is pursuing animal science but felt if she was a boy then her dad would make her do something like business. Her family's amount of love would also be different, she thinks that the majority of mothers love their sons more. Fathers love their daughters more because they have to protect them. So, she thinks her parents roles would flip and her mom would love her more. In contrast, she felt that her social life would not be much different because she treats all her friends equally. She said right now she hangs out with her boyfriends friends and her female friends so she is equally friendly around all people.
My beliefs on gender switch are somewhat the same. I believe if I was born a female, life in general would be more difficult. I think females carry many more restrictions on them than males. When it comes to parental guidance, generally males I know and including myself, have less rules placed upon them. Compared with the girls in my family I am given more freedom. For example, I had a curfew to come home at 7pm when I was in grade school but when I went to high school, my curfew was removed. On the other hand, my sisters had curfews to come home up until they turned 21. It seems that a stigma exists that men can take care of themselves more than women can. It is like females are seen as the weaker sex so they have more restrictions placed upon them to "protect" them. I also feel that school would be much harder as a female because they have more stereotypes against them. For example, in school athletics, male basketball games are greatly more popular than females basketball games. Even though it is the same sport being played. Genetically and in some cases, males may be stronger but both sexes play at the same skill level. Overall I believe gender inequality is very extreme today but I also believe it is changing for the better, thanks to those female activist who are fighting for it.
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