week two blog
- Gender “performance� is what we “do� - from our outer appearances to our actions to even the way we make sense of the world, we are “performing� gender and representing ourselves as either male or female.
- Gender makes life real through things such as social consequences. For instance, on the show “America’s Next Top Model�’s eleventh cycle, the contestant Isis was born a male, but does gender as a female. The social outcome of this is Isis being mocked and generally treated poorly by some of the other contestants. Isis is clearly facing real consequences solely as a result of the way she does gender.