User:Torreonboisestate/sandbox

The article about Social construction of gender definitely makes sense and goes into to detail overall about what produces the outcome of genders and their differences. This article also gave out a list of what factors impact social construction regarding to gender, and hers a few such as Power and hierarchy:status entitlement, knowledge being the reality along with the place and time, and is a dynamic process meaning that it is shaped by others, and your environment and what you learn as an individual. These factors are based on the research by Marecek, Crawford & Popp. I actually agree with their assumptions because in human life in society, we tend to shape ourselves based on what is around us or it usually just grows onto us by influencing us either negative or positive. The place and time, the words people use and the way people talk, the mannerisms we pick up as human beings, and i assume as well that would shape our gender depending on the way that we choose to do gender. But as we know society views things very close minded. I also just wanted to point out that i found very interesting is that this article really provides insight on how ender is shaped by what one does and that gender is an accomplishment. The reason i pointed this out is because anyone should be able to express themselves and be themselves without being judged, of course the world only sees male and females and in American society it is a norm and right way to act in their eyes but everyone is equal or should be. As stated, "Doing" gender is not just about conforming to stereotypical gender roles – it is the active engagement in any behavior that is gendered, or behavior that may be evaluated as gendered (West and Zimmerman)." The article is definitely neutral not one sided, during the reading of this article i did not witness anything going against, or opposing the topic in a biased way. This article is very considerate towards the topic, in other words it has no judgement whatsoever of people with different gender roles and as i mentioned provides multiple evidence and information explaining how gender is shaped and respecting that. Also in conclusion at the end of the article a majority of sources(citations) are valid and they all are very accurate and everything is dated correctly from my perspective. I believe in this article in a few of the sections within it should be better sources, like where it says edit source, to be specific it will say according to some association but it should give like an article or link to it. I did not see this article linked to any wikiprojects. [[File:Two Paragraphy Summary, Contributions to wiki The topic that I have chosen for my Wikipedia contribution is the Social Construction of Gender, which will be covering important aspects regarding how gender is made up. I will be going into depth about things such as the construction of gender from a feminist perspective and also defining what society expects in terms of masculinity and living within the norms. The perspective on men and how they “Do Their Gender”, and how they overthink and stress in their daily lives to achieve these standards that society has placed in their minds. Doing gender in this case for men is a significant part in their lives as they try not to show emotion and like to display their dominance and masculinity by pushing this image of power and showing no mercy when it comes to making decisions that are life threatening. Societal Expectations pressure how men should achieve masculinity can be too much of an impact on them which influences them to take more risk and to not take their health in consideration as much as women do. As stated, “ethnicity, economic status, educational level, sexual orientation and social context influence the kind of masculinity that men construct and contribute to differential health risks among men in the United States” (Courtenay). Men tend to practice unhealthy choices such as drinking in terms of getting drunk, smoking, and unsafe driving, just to prove their masculinity to society, due to the fact that if masculinity is not affirmed, it is seen as being weak and not the tough guy manly image that the world wants them to be. Men take their status in society seriously and end up facing the consequences of a life of pain that they do not like to show, the health risk that comes with the risky lifestyle, and with the outcome being a short life, with no hopes of longevity.