Masculinity And Identity Analysis

Any society with preconceptions and stereotypes is bound to make an impression on the people who exist within it. The construction of distinct categories (such as gender, sex, orientation, race, class etc.) to organize humans within leads to the creation of conventions and cultural norms for each of these categories. Such cultural norms describing what some type of person is or isn’t, what they can or cannot be, has a strong normative effect. The tendency to behave in a way that fits the stereotypical behavior prescribed to a category of person is performativity. Gender performativity is a particularly prevalent form of this: people across the world perform the gendered roles of male, female, genderqueer, or any other identity they may hold. I recognize that I perform my gender and identity on a daily basis as well; as a cisgendered male, I have undergone socialization throughout my childhood and adult life that has had a profound influence--perhaps even a defining one--on my concept of
My identity and the definition of masculinity I have been taught are expressed in my gender performance in a variety of ways, including the way I treat my secondary sex characteristics such as body and facial