Gender Binary
To "fuck with" gender, one must have an expectation to be able to rebel against. These expectations are socially constructed so that in the United States it is only acceptable to have one of two genders. These genders are based on the sex organs a person is born with; female sex organs or male sex organs. These organs determine whether or not a person will be treated as feminine or masculine and also determines who a person couples with later in life.
Gender roles are explained throughout life, based on the sex a person is raised to be. These roles have changed over the years but still when asking children in the U.S., even now, who cooks and cleans and stays at home, most will answer with something similar to "the mommy," and when asked who goes to work, drives the car, and watches or likes sports and they will say something to the effect of, "the daddy."
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Famous quotes containing the word gender:
“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)