The Genders of Our World December 21, 2009

Whether we think about it or not and whether we see ourselves as the typical boy or girl, it doesn’t matter.  The majority of people, at least in this westernized society, we are brought up relatively the same, socialized in the same ways, and because of that we adopt that way of thinking, be it “appropriate” gender roles or even what genders we should be.  In this day and age, we’ve hit a point where everything has changed so much with the “normal” scheme of things that when we keep this socialized way of expectations, where does it leave the people who don’t fit into those expectations.  Be it any type of situation, whether the person doesn’t keep with their assigned sex or whether they’ve been born with a case that doesn’t really define them as either, or both, they are left in a soceity that won’t ever really accept them because of the “normal” that has been revovling through everyone’s lives for many, many years.  A cycle this immense, and the more immense it becomes, gets harder and harder to eliminate.  As someone seen on the street and their gender is near impossible to identify, many feel the need to put a significant amount of effort into trying to figure it out.  But why should it matter?  Why must a person be identified as anything to be able to function in our communities?  If we can’t be identified, are we nothing, unable to be a part of the most basic of activities because people can’t tell what we are?  Before it’s thought about, it seems as the most innocent of actions, nothing meant by it but it’s really all expected.  Socialization is what has created these expectations and it’s only when it’s really pondered over that one realizes how much we value, how much we put on to the identification of gender.  But even without gender, we are all still human.

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