Anna Allen
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My interviewee and I looked over a list of traits and tried to decide which were "masculine" and which were "feminine." On a few, we disagreed slightly, but for the most part we were in concurrence that they were traits typically expressed in both males and females. In most, we identified those that were generally identified more with one gender or the other by society as a whole. The interviewee felt that traits like "helpful" and "moody" were more attributable to women than men, and also that "shy" and "unpredictable" could best be applied to men, rather than women. For the most part, the consensus was that the traits were more dependent upon individual personality than they were on gender.
This is in agreement with a lot of what was discussed in Chapter 4 of our textbooks, especially when talking about researchers like Gilligan, whose point was very similar to that of the author Kimmel when he says that there seem to be more differences among men and among women than there are between men and women. Gilligan is quoted in the book explaining that her findings were "'not based on any premise of inherent differences between the sexes, but solely on the different nature of their experiences'" (98).
A current event that I remembered when reading the text this week was a commercial for Wiserhood, in which a man, when trusted with his date's purse, puts it in a bag so that he will not be seen holding a feminine accessory, and is applauded by male onlookers. Not only is it reminiscent of the male bonding discussed in previous chapters, but it also hearkens to the table based on Terman's and Miles's M-F scale produced in The Authoritarian Personality. I remembered how the book describes those who are the least secure in their masculinity, and the sorts of behaviors in which they believed they would engage in order to maintain the appearance of masculinity.
Here is the link to the commercial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuScm9FZPmQ
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My interviewee and I looked over a list of traits and tried to decide which were "masculine" and which were "feminine." On a few, we disagreed slightly, but for the most part we were in concurrence that they were traits typically expressed in both males and females. In most, we identified those that were generally identified more with one gender or the other by society as a whole. The interviewee felt that traits like "helpful" and "moody" were more attributable to women than men, and also that "shy" and "unpredictable" could best be applied to men, rather than women. For the most part, the consensus was that the traits were more dependent upon individual personality than they were on gender.
This is in agreement with a lot of what was discussed in Chapter 4 of our textbooks, especially when talking about researchers like Gilligan, whose point was very similar to that of the author Kimmel when he says that there seem to be more differences among men and among women than there are between men and women. Gilligan is quoted in the book explaining that her findings were "'not based on any premise of inherent differences between the sexes, but solely on the different nature of their experiences'" (98).
A current event that I remembered when reading the text this week was a commercial for Wiserhood, in which a man, when trusted with his date's purse, puts it in a bag so that he will not be seen holding a feminine accessory, and is applauded by male onlookers. Not only is it reminiscent of the male bonding discussed in previous chapters, but it also hearkens to the table based on Terman's and Miles's M-F scale produced in The Authoritarian Personality. I remembered how the book describes those who are the least secure in their masculinity, and the sorts of behaviors in which they believed they would engage in order to maintain the appearance of masculinity.
Here is the link to the commercial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuScm9FZPmQ
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