Álvaro Sosa
I see gender done culturally in my society. Societies in principal
want their culture to remain unchanged to be preserved across time and
thus gender must remain the same because it is culture after all; a
specific way of behavior in my point of view. But we all know gender
is evolving as we speak since we can look back in history and see all
the changes gender has gone through. Culturally installed believes and
thus culturally installed femininities and masculinities tend to not
be able to perceive their flows. Sayings are a big part of the culture
of México because they are anchors that hold change constant. So I
still hear sayings such as "men do not cry." But this is absurd
because we see men crying everywhere and yet some say men don't cry.
Thus in this manner society creates a false definition of gender based
not on the facts but rather in the echo it has. Thus I am against all
of these sayings. Sayings are nothing but the beginning of a
children's process to learn their gender. The people around these
children are there just to remind them of the established norms
because gender must remain unchanged as culture has to remain
unchanged.
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Sosa, Álvaro
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Alvaro, I definitely agree with you on how we "do gender" based on the cultures, and on how the forms in which gender its taught, wants to remains unchanged by cultures. Most of Mexican traditional families are very special when it comes to raising their kids, and have other phrases too, that I'm sure are not only use in the Mexican culture. Parents say things like, " only boys play with cars, and only girls play with dolls", If parents have boys, they are allowed to hang around with boys, and girls. But on the other hand if they have a daughter, she is only allowed to hang out with girls. We are taught at a young age that girls cant sit with their legs open, only guys are allowed to sit that way. And if we break those rules we get in trouble, and we get the talk about how girls are suppose to behave like lady's. I think that things are like that because parents are scared of their children wanting to be the opposite sex, and even more in the Mexican culture, especially because of the history of 'machismo'. -Sara Hernandez
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