Considering this week’s topic of masculine and feminine roles I examined myself and those closest to me. My first step was to compare myself to my boyfriend. Instantly, I thought it was funny to see that I used my boyfriend’s sex as a man in order to examine his gender and masculine characteristics while comparing it to my own feminine characteristics. I found this demonstrates that although I have been educated in the meaning of sex and gender, I continue to pair men with masculine and women with feminine, though there can be masculine woman and feminine men. While making descriptions I define him as strong, straightforward, aggressive, funny, mischievous, and driven. In turn, I feel that I am understanding, caring, shy, accepting, funny, and nurturing. I then decided to consider my parents relationship and feel that my dad fit the similar description of my boyfriend, and my mother the same as myself. Furthermore, I examined some of my favourite movies. Twilight features two lead males and one female who scene to scene is the damsel in distress, weak and in need of their rescue. I then looked at Disney movies which have great influence on North American youth. Often there was a weak, white female in need of rescuing from a strong male in order to live happily ever after; both Shrek and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are examples of this.
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