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.