Gender and Society

After reading that article about gender roles I had a really fast reaction to my childhood. I was always that kid that needed attention and would go about every way to get it. Most of my younger childhood years were spend pretending i was a boy and pulling it off the best i could. ( eventually causing my mother a lot of sexual confusion about me.) I wasn't doing it because i felt like being the opposite gender than my own but it was more about putting on a performance in everyday life. Creating a character that i could have fun playing. Knowing that the author's name was Holly too, sort of helped me get through the article. I already identified a lot of the information simply as: 'general research'. But even though i feel very confident with my gender, i felt extremely uncomfortable reading it.  Maybe it was because I was knocking down all the things i did wrong while trying to be 'feminine'. Or perhaps it was just the fact that someone who went through a tans-gender surgery, the author, was so ridged and unmoved about gender roles in society. The writing felt like a very constructed prejudice. Why do people have to confide in a gender-sorted box? Does anyone really do that? Maybe I was missing the message in the article, but I was very distracted by the creation of such a stereotype. All I could think about while reading, all the qualifications for masculinity, Was that the guy in skinny jeans really didn’t fit that word at all even though he was holding hands with a very feminine looking girl.  Something about the article simply sickened me, I think it was a dumb thing to research, who cares who has the proper gender roles in society anyway?