- Do you ever think about why men can walk around without shirts on and women can't?
- Do you ever think about the diminishing waistline of female models every where?
- Have you ever seen a man wearing a skirt?
- What do you think of women who wear power suits?
- What do you think when you are getting dressed?
- Why do you dress the way you do?
Our goal is to perform a safe and active environment on this blog where people can participate in dialoge about gender and fashion. We want to expose gender polarization, socialization, and construction. Every individual performs gender different ways based upon their socialization and influences. This issue includes ideas about race, ethnicity, religion, location and more.
We hope to educate and move from questioning yourself to sharing questions and dialogue with others. Our focus is on fashion and style and how it is associated with gender association. How does ones style and fashion sense express their gender or gender role in society?
A goal is to get you thinking about the way you dress, do your hair, walk, and talk. What makes girls want to wear pink or things that are sparkly? Is it because they are pressured by their peers, the media, want to impress the opposite sex? Why do boys wear jerseys or baggy pants? What makes people think that is what their gender is supposed to look like?
Let's explore!
This is an Intergroup Collaboratory Project of SOC/WPS 230.
1 comment:
There has got to be some type of difference in the genetic makeup of males and females. Even before our parents "force" toys and colors on us , young children tend to gravitate towards "gender specific" items. But by social norms pink has represented females and blue has represented males. Of course when anyone goes against the social norms and at a young age, society questions their actions even when they in fact don't understand what they are doing.
As we grow older, we get labeled by how we dressed.
Too look at it literally, men don't wear skirts because well it's not very flattering.
But from a society's view point I feel that women wear skirts because at all times they are supposed to act as ladies. In a skirt, women are forced to sit a certain way (hiding their privates), which gives them a reason to have their legs crossed- one symbol of a feminine act.
With clothing, it is hard to challenge societal norms, because they have been embedded in us from birth and we will embed them in our children and future generations. Society's not ready for men to wear what is considered female clothing, simply because it hasn't been done mainstream and won't be accepted as readily.
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