Week 12

This week we dove into the aspects of gender rolls and various forms and place where and how a gender roll can be "preformed" at, by reading  Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,”  This reading really made you think more about societal rolls of gender and were that typically is or is not appropriate.  Gender, while I do think it is changing, seems to still follow a very old almost biblical side of how you should dress and act. Men don't wear dresses, woman do not do much asides from bar children and cook. While this is changing and females are increasingly becoming more and more integrated into our corporate world and and in more recent events into our government. There is still the lingering of stereotypes for our genders. Being raised in a small farming town it was standard that woman not wear short things, boys not have long hair, girls like boys and boys like girls. That's the way it is.  Anyone to go outside of those standards was in a was punished socially. No one would hang out or associate with them. No one was really allowed to explore their or the next gender because you got the one you got at birth that was it. If you were to explore anything you were doing it hush hush and out of the eyes of society. Roles are even still present where women are oppressed in my home town to date, no government leaders are women, but nearly all the teachers are. No women speak or give group prayer at my church just repopulate it. All the woman in that town act femininity they submit to the roles laid down by society before them slowly but surely continuing their own self-oppression.  

The image I choose for this week is the "We can do It" poster and it for its time really represented the opposite of gender norms for women.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!