Álvaro Sosa
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On the 29 of September, 2014, my interviewee had to give her opinion on whether how masculine or feminine are some particular traits presented on the survey from class. Given the answers of my interviewee, one can conclude that for almost any particular trait one can find counter examples for which the rule is broken. In some of the traits the interviewee had no hesitation for the labeling of feminine or masculine for a given trait but this just means that she can conclude from her environment such trait as true for a specific gender because that is all she has seen or knows and thus does not considered the environments she hasn't seen. Thereby no trait is good reference for identifying gender. Traits are good for identifying roles as in the case when a (male) father is a single father and portrays an affectionate attribute which is most commonly seen as feminine. Although her answers are based on her believes and believes of the people around her, she is aware that those around her will disagree partially and when they coincide in some of the terms it may be due to a different reasoning. These stereotypical words are good for us to take an approach to get closer or away from people, but it is good to recognize that they are nothing more than bias assumptions; assumptions are necessary in almost any event but we must seek for truth and never use them to harm. I believe that these traits should not be used to incarcerate people but in a society of consumption as is the United States this incarceration of genders must happen for them (companies) to have easy targets.
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