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Which San Fran SRS Member Are You?

What do you do most often in class?

What's your favorite course term?

What can you be found doing in San Francisco?

What are you most likely to post in the GroupMe?

Leslie

"Oh, sorry, I thought that was in my mind."

Alisia

Abel

Mason

Ricky

"I just wanted to remind everyone about this brown bag..."

Emily

Allie

Melanie

Molly

"While I can't speak for everyone, I think that social construction affects everyone’s life and plays an important role in stereotyping men and women as opposites. Individuals of a society define masculinity and femininity as what has been taught to them while they were growing up be it by their family, friends, and media. When an individual thinks of a doctor, lawyer, priest, engineer, or manager they usually picture a male while nurses, teachers, and housewives are purely female professions in our society. A person may not get into a certain profession because of their choice but because it’s socially acceptable. 
Most of the behavior associated with gender is learned rather than innate. People start to learn what is right and wrong, according to society, from the time they are born. If a boy is born in a family, the families immediately start buying monster trucks, race cars, and action hero type toys and makes comments like “what a big strong boy you are,” that encourage so called “male” behavior. As opposed to a girl being born, the family would then buy dolls, cute dresses, and stuffed bears. They would encourage her to be kind and sensitive like a female should behave. Parents would allow their sons to stay out late and be more liberal on them unlike their daughter where they would not allow her to stay out late and be a little more strict on them. The boys would be expected to help out in the yard while the girls would help clean the house. These characteristics are not unusual or out of the ordinary because this is how things have been for hundreds of years. 
The media contributes to social construction, as men and women are almost always portrayed in a stereotypical matter. The impact that media can apply varies form society to society, this is because each society has a different social construction. In European countries, for example, nudity can be shown on television and is perfectly acceptable, the openness towards sexuality in our society..."

Mariam

Laura

Chinyere

Woohee

Wanying

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