Post five: Gender Complexities

Gender Complexities:

Gender roles play a huge part in every day life. Over the years our society is slowly becoming equal but at the same time, there are still things that girls “aren’t” supposed to do or “look down upon” when doing. Personally I think it’s a bunch of bullshit. Why does someone get the ability to decide weather a girl can or can’t do something? If someone wants to be gay or bisexual so be it. If a man wants to do cosmetology or a girl wants to be a construction worker, they should be able to, without being judged by their gender. Our society functions off what we call the “society norm”, but what is normal nowadays? I mean what happened to, the guy is supposed to ask the girl or the moms stay home and be a housewife. Over the years so much has changed from what it used to be. Hello, normal doesn’t exist anymore.

After reading the stories this past week, Id have to say, “When it changed” relates to the controversy of genetic differences in gender the best.  The first issue to arise in the story is when the plague hit their planet and all men vanished. For about 30 generations there had only been women, until one day the “aliens” showed up (who were actually men) to tell the women that they needed to reproduce with real men, not test tubes. The women are in shock and don’t really know how to react because they are so used to not having men around. Janet plays the “male” role and gets very offensive when these men try to take over. Another issue throughout is the gender inequality, how is it fair that the moment the “aliens” arrive they have instant power? Janet feels threatened and doesn’t like what’s going on, so she grabs her gun and threatens to kill.  Going back to the society norm, these women were perfectly happy. They were raising kids, living the life, and everyone was equal. Janet would rather die then live life the way these males wanted her to. In a way I agree you should live the way you want, not how someone tells you to. 

Genetic difference in gender is a huge deal and will be for many years to come, this is a topic that I could rant on for days. I think a lot is unfair and still needs to be changed, but that’s just my opinion. All I have to say is hell if you want be gay be gay, if you’re a guy and want to wear make-up, do it! It’s your life, live it how you want to.

-Rebecca Jones