Gender and sex they both go hand in hand. You cannot have one without the other. If you are male society has labeled you to be strong, masculine, active, and a stud. You wear the pants in the family. Your wife and children look up to you as the man of the house and financial provider. You portray yourself as a strong man and you do manly activities; such as play or watch sports and drink beer with the guys. As for women society labels them as caring, nurturing, passive, sensitive, bitchy and feminine. As a wife you are supposed to obey and honor your husband, take care of the children, cook and clean around the house. You are to represent yourself as a respectable woman.
These are the two categories that society labels men and women. For everyone else who are caught in between having male and female genitalia are considered as abnormal. Society rejects these people because they are considered to be inferior and have no place in society. I feel bad for these people because not only they have enough to deal with everyday life’s stress they are stuck in between an identity crisis. So they feel ashamed, confused and lost. It’s almost the same scenario to people who have diverse ethnicity.
I feel like society is a big cage that everyone is caught inside of it and it is controlling us to think what is normal and abnormal. How women and men should act and what kind of toys boys and girls can play with. I don’t think the kind of toys boys and girls play with affects their gender. My daughter plays with cars, trucks, and blocks. She has plenty of “girly” toys she can play with but she prefers to play with cars and trucks over dolls. I believe people should be who they want to be if that’s what they are comfortable with. Nobody is perfect; we all go through some type of identity crises in our life time. People can through many identity crises such as our gender, our career, age and success.
