Gender: Gender Role and Men Essay

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Jerlenifer Blue
06/22/13
Gender
. As a child I learned men and women were Gods first creation. Men were made first and then the woman was made as the man companion. Men hold the role of being head of the house, a leader, a protector, hard, and someone the woman can go to if something needs to be fixed or worked on. Women hold the role of being caring and compassionate, loving, gentle, and affectionate.
When first growing up my mama taught me more of the traditional way of woman and men, there were girls and boys, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, and etc. As far as women and men they had a certain role to play and the Christian life style was involved, but when I began to get older and mature I soon learned there was way more to gender than just woman and man or basically heterosexual. Once hitting high school I soon learned quick everyone wont the same and didn’t go by the standard male and female gender role, so my mother became more open and explaining to me how gender is expressed and seen in many different ways. My view on gender now differ in many ways; you have Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual, Asexual, Polysexual, Pansexual, Transsexuals, and even more that I may not know. I don’t see the role of men and women as just bible term day or how we are taught to see them as children, I see men and women as unique individuals who hold up to the same standard as each other and are equal. When I ready to have children my plans are to basically go about