The Genderbread Person: Contextual Analysis

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Picture yourself in the center of a glass/ mirror room surrounded by all the people you had/have a relationship, social interaction, or experience with. This imagery puts into perspective of how we influence each other personalities, that we are reflections of each other and this is how our own personal and social identities are formed. Both gender and sexuality contributes to molding our identities because it has a huge impact on our very own experiences. In order to understand gender and sexuality and its’ relations to Pascoe’s work, we can refer to models known as the Genderbread Person and the Sexualitree. The Genderbread Person approaches the social construction of gender based on one’s gender identity (define your gender based on what …show more content…

The Sexualitree deconstructs how we experience sexuality and how it affects us on three levels: intimate (dating, sex), relational (family, friends, associates), and cultural (populations within city, state, country). Within these three levels, there are numerous ways you can experience various aspects of sexuality (Killermann) ranging from age, disability, race, to sexual anatomy/orientation, pornography, and puberty.
So, how does the Genderbread Person depicted in Dude, You’re A Fag? Pascoe’s illustrates how sex/gender/expression can work in concert with (and opposition to) one another. Gender occurs in groups whereas friendships, cliques, and peer groups become important to the formation of identity in adolescence (Bettie 2003; Hallinan and Williams 1990; Kinney 1993). Despite one’s biological sex, they can express traits that can be categorized as either masculine or feminine. Social expectations relates to gender influence and how behavior (sexually, feelings, demeanor, attitude, etc.) is shown differently through women and men. This difference in behavior allows us to understand and develop a perception of the differences between masculinity and femininity, therefore categorizing behaviors between both men and women based on their

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