SOCB22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cheerleading, Digimarc, House Husbands
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Attributers assign gender according to the actions of the subject. Subject shows signs and actions which cause attributers to make decisions based on gender. Both follow a culturally defined and accepted gender script. Both of them are able to execute their decisions. For the attributor > make judgments according to gender script to draw a conclusion. Subject > able to put gender script in practice, and desire to follow the gender script. Those who violate gender script > penalized. Carving out sustaining and expanding spaces within a predominantly binary gender script. Challenge to be able to not put in femininities and masculinities but also add more categories in binary script. Previous article: black men being forced to do masculinities where male masculinities isn"t constructed through the subordination of women. Femininity > set if behaviors, attributes and roles that generally associate with girls and women. Socially constructed but made up of socially defined and biological factors.
