Saturday, March 19, 2011
Blog Post #2: Response to Lorber's "Night to His Day"
In the reading "Night to His Day" talks about how society views genders. For example, she explains how she saw a well suited man with a 1 year-old child on the train. Everyone in the train were astonished and kind of happy to see a father figure. If a woman was placed in this scene, then it wouldn't get the same reactions. The surprising thing was that the child was dressed up as a "boy", but it had earnings on and pink socks and this showed some gender differences. Another example of how genderism affects society is the way the gender behaves. Behavior is the most important thing, for example if a woman acts horrible then the society with look at her in a whole different way. In Society, everyone has a different perspective of everyone and in genderism it depends on how you act, dress, and so forth. Judith Lorber also states the different genders, one example would be transvestites. Transvestites are often males who learn to act and dress like the opposite sex. My opinion is that society sees a big difference in genders even if we don't realize it.
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The first half of your post simply repeats what we have already said in class or in the responses to the question posted by Bushra last Tuesday? I like the point you make about a woman behaving horribly. Can you give an example? How would society view that woman? How would she be treated? What about a man in the same situation? What do you mean by "In Society, everyone has a different perspective of everyone and in genderism it depends on how you act, dress, and so forth"? You also write "Judith Lorber also states the different genders, one example would be transvestites." What do you mean by Lorber "states the different genders"? Is it a fact that transvestites are often men? There are also women who dress like men and live their lives as men.
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