Thursday, October 6, 2011

Gender Challengers

I find it interesting that we even have gender ideals still in society. They say that many children look up to the celebrities and sometimes are even influenced by what they may do in movies and tv shows. There's so many gender challengers in the world that I don't understand why we even have gender ideals. Hollywood is full of gender challengers such as, Ellen, Angelina Jolie, Adam Lambert, Miss J and several more.

Pictures I found on google.

 Children look up to celebrities and many grow up challenging their gender themselves. There's several girls out there that like to wear "guy" clothes, in fact I used to be one of those girls. I didn't care what I wore as long as I felt comfortable. With gender ideals in society those young girls grow up and are then seen as "tomboys"; they're not tomboys they are girls. Then society wonders why there's so much bullying occurring around the world. I believe that gender ideals plays a strong role in bullying. If a child challenges their gender they get picked on.

An inspiring video I found on YouTube.

If society destroyed their views on how males should act and how females should act, I suspect there would be less teenage suicidals around the world. Ellen herself is a lesbian which makes this video even more inspiring, for someone who knows what young homosexual teenagers are feeling, to say it will get better.

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