Becoming Member of Society

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English 151 Professor Dennis – Benn March 12, 2013 These stories have brought us to ask ourselves, how society views men and women in both the work field and in a personal field. Why should women be viewed as submissive and sensitive while a men is viewed as dominate and strong individuals. Many people think sex and gender are the same thing and mean the same thing but it is not, sex means a male and a female and gender is masculinity and femininity. Sex is referring to biological differences chromosome hormonal profiles internal and external sex organs. Gender describes the society or culture delineates as masculine or feminity. In Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis her chapter Floyd the main character deals with an internal conflict. In the story he is a ladies man he could get up to three women through the course of the day. He is a ladies man when he gets to seven days he is approached by a young man named Lafayette something about this guy had Floyd attention, they started talking and they had sex… Floyd couldn’t bring himself to tell anyone how he feels because he would be viewed as less than a man. Society would call him gay and they wouldn’t look at him as the ladies’ man. Instead of him being honest and opening up he hides it and chooses to sleep with multiple women. Michael Kimmel Masculinity as Homophobia most men are scared that other men will perceive them as sissy, or gay. Also some men who have this dominate attitude and have this certain presumption about life hide their sexuality by sleeping with multiply women or they get married so people won’t think they are less than a man, a women quoted “ she know a man is gay if he really cares about her” is this really how society view men now a day. In Aaron Devors “ Becoming Members of Society’’ description of the social qualities subsumed by feminity and masculinity might be
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