Our Gender Doesn’t Determine Our Identity
The 21’st century widely adopted the gender stereotype, which the biggest issue towards the standards between a male and a female that gives unfair judgment and boundaries to a person preferred personality and choice. Since the day that a child born, the parents decide the appropriate attire for their kid. If you are a male, wear pants, and only play ‘boy’ toys like race cars and superheroes. If you are a female, wear skirts, and only play dolls, teddy-bears and make-up kits. The parents honed the child to be what their vision is, and without any clue, the parents adopt the stereotype which must be stopped ahead of time.
Based on the global study of Luscombe (2017), gender stereotypes start at the age of 10 that gives a psychological burdensome and leads to a risk for the social development of a person's behavior. Gender stereotyping accept the widely judgment or bias about certain traits to apply to each other gender so it doesn't bring any good to anyone. The overgeneralization about the expectations of the difference of a certain group based on their gender gives a hypocritical view of the world. Likewise, stereotyping happens in school. School is the establishment that teaches student lessons whereas it can help in the future. But the problem is in some cases; the lessons that are made have ‘categorizing' that can make the child confused. Classes about identifying which is masculine, feminine, common and neuter are sometimes faulty; an example is a word ‘nurse', in this world, there are male and female nurses, but why does it often classified as a feminine job?
Encounters with men and women are often lead to stereotyping were if one job is likely to be done by the most sex, the society preferred that it should be it. Furthermore, the society today prefers the job of men to be like soldiers, pilots, security guards – everything that is brave. Moreover, the jobs for women were suitable for caregiving, cooking, cleaning – everything that is good for housekeeping. Stereotyping always happens based on the physical appearances and the personality traits of a human, which affects the occupation the human desired to get. Some women want to be a part of the police and some men want to have a job at a parlor snipping hair.
The media had one of the biggest contributions towards stereotyping. Media gives out the information to many people out there, but sometimes the information that was given subtly acclaims stereotyping. When you open the television, why do men always get a lot of character towards telenovelas and women are just like household critters emotionally falling for men? Sometimes the media portrays men as a leading role than women, thus, people see that women are weak and men dominate the world. This is where the society gets the idea of standardized issues and classifications that are knowingly occurring today and because of this, women struggle with the crisis of gender discrimination and stereotyping. So is being different a good thing?
Yes, definitely, but in this world, people may judge you because of doing something that doesn't suit your sexuality. There's a quote saying "if someone tells a lie, the whole crowd may seem it is the truth" and it means that sometimes people fall for things that aren't true. Men can wear dresses. Women can wear suits. All of the people out there can wear what they want and have a job regardless of what their identity is. Let us create a world without discrimination and any type of stereotyping so that the abundance of peace is closer to our hands. It is the 21st century, and we have the free-will to do what we want to do and who we want to be. We don’t define ourselves just because of what we wear, what we play, what we do, and what the opinions of others give; because as we count our tomorrows, we’ll see a glimpse of where the definition of yourself is in your heart and not on the opinions of other people.
