Judith Butler's How To Date A Brown Girl

Is it really possible to foresee a person’s sexual behavior with only the basis of their cultural background or upbringing? How to Date a Brown Girl uses the narrator to show how cultural differences can be used to judge or predict the sociasexual orientation, or the readiness to take part in sexual activity without being in a relationship of different women. He tells the difference between women that are less eager to have casual sex and the ones who are comfortable with having sexual relations with a casual partner. Judith Butler explains in her essay __________________ , how ones culture including beliefs and customs can build ones appearance of substance, a constructed identity made for social audience stating you are not born a certain
way instead become who you are through a repetition of acts you either experience or view. With Butler’s views on culture and the narrator’s prejudgment on women with different backgrounds the question of a person’s sexual behavior being directly related to their background arises.
It would only be half-right to claim that I am interested in how the phenomenon of a men's or women's point of view gets constituted, for while I do think that those points of views are, indeed, socially constituted.
Butler________________. The narrator, Malcriado gives many scenarios in ___________________________, in which are typical stereotypes. For instance, “A local girl may have hips and a thick ass but she won't be quick about letting you touch. She has to live in the same neighborhood you do, has to deal with you being all up in her business… if she's reckless, she might give it up, but that's rare. A white girl will just give it up right then. Don't stop her. She'll take her gum out of her mouth” These sociasexual stereotypes are giving the reader the impression that white women have low standards and are willing to have casual partners whereas the local women are willing, but are too concerned with their image and getting a bad name for themselves to let things go too
far.
The judgement we make about a group as a whole based on little to no real interactions are easy to make. We only know what we are told or see but being that we have a small amount of real interaction we don’t know the real reasoning behind their actions or way of living. We are all at fault of doing this at some point. According to ‘Gender Roles and Gender Differences’ an article written about the development of children, heterosexual behaviors can be foreseen by the behaviors children have in elementary school. Children show from a young age what is typically accepted in their culture. When applying that to “How to date a Brown Girl” it seems as if he’s making these judgements based on little to no interaction but simple assumptions. Judith Butler claims that people are their own individual self but their culture and social surroundings have a large influence on their way of thinking and behaving. “There are thus acts which are done in the name of women, and then there are acts in and of themselves, apart from any instrumental consequence, that challenge the category of women itself. Indeed, one ought to consider the futility of a political program which seeks radically to transform the social situation of women without first determining whether the category of woman is socially constructed in such a way that to be a woman is, by definition, to be in an oppressed situation”. Butler suggest that many of our behaviors are social constructed, created by social beliefs but I Believe there is a difference in behaving as you see others around you and being judged of the basis of what those around you do. Yet, people assume these social behaviors are everyday norms when judging a group of people.
While social construction suggests that everything a person knows or does comes from a social situation, I don’t totally agree that knowing someones social background, cultural, or upbringing can determain their socialsexual orientation.
The willingnessly to behave in certain sexual behaviors wouldn’t be socially constructed, being that it’s based on a persons own wants and not from what they have socially experienced. The act of being promiscuous to impress others would be socially ignited but to say that bringing a white girl home is an automatic “hand job” would only be a cultural stereotype. Assumption based not on facts but ideas that haven’t been proven that show that one doesn’t fully understand. This isn’t a normal social construction. The narrator of “How to Date a Brown Girl” may have in fact dealt with other women that fit these sterotypes that reinforced his personal beliefs and made him generalize the future women to come but he shouldn’t characterize an entire culture based on his
past.

Is it really possible to foresee a person’s sexual behavior with only the basis of their cultural background or upbringing? No. As Judith Butler states a person’s social environment is a major factor when shaping a person into they are but when it comes to making sterotypes on their socialsexual orientation or willingness to partake in sexual behavior just off the basis of the skin color or where they are from a lot of misconceptions are formed.