Saturday, March 28

A Gender Moment illuminates A B or C

A embedded gender expectations, B the social control of gender roles, C or the breakdown of traditional gender roles. Examples:

  • A a man getting down on his knees to ask for a hand in marriage
  • C a woman police officer giving men a ticket or an arm hold
  • C two people of the same sex happily holding hands
  • C a little girl teasing a little boy
  • C a woman president
  • A a man president
  • C a scientifially created "man" having a baby
  • A + C an unmarried woman having 8 babies
  • A different household rules for when brother gets home vs sister gets home
  • A different tasks allocated in the household
  • A different locales for dreams (women dream indoors; men dream outdoors)
  • B Rape of lesbians in Africa as method of curing them of homosexuality
  • ABC "Get me a beer"
  • AB covering C covering in style in Vogue
  • B two doors into the university in Teheran
  • A + B? date rape C?
Now that you know what a gender moment is - comment here the next time you take note of something in life which seems to be a gender moment. Code it A B or C. In your comment, you can describe it using all the space you need. If you need to begin a whole new post about one and receive comments, that's ok too.