Masculinity Vs Femininity

People in every society have ideas about the ways men and women are supposed to act. Gender identity is then, instituted by performance. Gender is socially constructed rather than born with. In accordance with the gender binary theory, we live in society with the idea that there are only two types of individuals such as, a male-bodied person who are masculine and a female-bodied person who is feminine (Wade & Ferree, Chapter 2). By defining someone "masculine" or "feminine" we assume they're all the same. Individuals who embody a masculine or feminine identity can have cultural and social effects. By performing it can affect the ways individuals experience their bodies, their sense of self, and how they project themselves to others. By possessing masculinity or femininity, individuals move through and produce that gender

In this way, masculinity or femininity is an identifiable set of practices that are easily identified across space and time. Through this recurring enactment, these practices produce a distribution of resources, power, whom to sexually desire, production of meaning and values. Therefore, being a woman or a man is something one is constantly readjusting and repeatedly performing to cultural norms. Gender is persistently regulated and policed by social norms. We live in a society that idealizes androcentrism, a gender-based prejudice granting higher status, respect, value, reward, and power to masculine compared to the feminine (Wade & Ferree, Chapter 6). The gender binary thus, leads to a gender hegemonic through the subordination of femininity to hegemonic masculinity, but also marginalizes men for not performing masculinity (Wade & Ferree, Chapter 6). Men and women are brought into a hierarchical relationship through gendered expectations. Placing females inferior to men and glorifying the hegemonic masculinity, the accepted domination position