Stereotypes

If our biology was what influenced our characteristics, whether we are meek or out spoken, strong, timid and other gender associated traits, then every girl would be the stereotypical female and every guy the stereotypical manly man. More and more we are seeing both genders breaking from these roles and many men are nurses, secretaries and teachers and many women are truck drivers, high up business executives and construction workers.  This leads me to believe that whether or not our biology originally had a say in these traits they are more a culturally acquired taste.

Anyone who says that a woman needs to get in the kitchen because that is what she was born to do is outrageously mistaken. The only reason that gender roles are even around is because as we look around the world our brains comprehend it by putting different people into categories. This is how prejudice, racism and sexism starts. We see a couple women who are good at taking care of children so we assign women that quality. We see a young black man stealing and assume they are all trouble makers. We see a couple Mexicans gardening and say that that is all that Mexicans can do. We are not biologically programed to fit into stereotypes, we are socialized to and this causes the stereotypes to persist.