Gender Roles - Taylor Britt

In modern society today gender and gender roles can be in be influenced by religion very easily. Mostly because of the original way that gender roles should be displayed. Western Judeo-Christians traditions have strict rules when it comes to the topic of gender roles and they are not afraid to in force the rules if needed. Like it says in the article "The Berdache Tradition" if the European descendants accepted something as normal, than anything different is considered abnormal. I think that in American society today we ave those same views of if something is different we see it as abnormal. American society only provides for two genders because that is how it has always been, that is what we were originally taught and normally we keep traditions the way that they are supposed to be. Man should act like man and woman should act like woman. I do believe that the views of gender are changing though. This reason could be because of the simple fact that it might be out with the old views and in with the new views of gender roles. The new ones can be more flexible and understanding such as giving woman the same jobs as the men do or vise versa. I think that the jobs in America today can be a contributing factor to the changing of gender role and those views are constantly changing everyday.