This Blessed House

The Misconception of the Earring In the article, “Sex and the body,” by Nelly Oudshoorn, gender is defined as the assignment of masculine and feminine qualities to bodies in cultural contexts. In relation gender is a set of characteristics distinguishing between male and female, particularly in the cases of men and women. Depending on the writing, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social to gender identity politics. But in most contexts, even in some areas of social sciences. This accounts for many of the things we see in the world around us. For example, In today's society we can clearly see that there are many objects geared towards men that are not geared towards women and vice versa. Earrings is an example of this About half of the United States population wear earrings. From day to day I see men,women, teenagers and even babies wearing them, and it is clear to see that some are made for women and not made for men. The earring itself can be used to define a persons sexuality; wearing certain types of earrings could affect the way society looks at you. The general public is programmed to believe objects are gendered. Without these preconceived beliefs objects would just be objects and would not be used as a determination of human characteristics. From the readings that were assigned from my Gender Women's Studies class and my personal experiences, I learned that objects can be gendered by color, shape, size, and even texture. This lead me to the conclusion that objects have no meaning until society gives it an irrelevant and often sexist generalized meaning. Gender can come unexpected at any time in life. The situation is that you have to know how to handle it when it sneaks up on you, like it did me. I went to Walmart one day, going to look for a pair of earrings, I was stuck in the isle for a while, contemplating on which pair of earrings I should buy. I was torn between two similar types of earrings. Although they were different