The very first one

The reading was confusing but out of all the new vocabulary and complicated sentence structure I pulled out a couple ideas that interested me.  The idea that identity is not something that you "find" but rather something that society constructs is one that I agree with. Because gender is a part of our identity it too is not something we have from the get go but rather something that has been constructed for us. Our gender and the gender roles we are supposed to fill are constructed through our history, culture, religion, language and many more factors. In class we looked at how media portrays the perfect man or woman and how we portray what we think is the perfect man or women.  These roles were not chosen by us but rather we were born into them.  I also found it interesting how in class the perfect man or woman as portrayed by the media was not always what we personally believed. Since the media reflects what we think is the perfect man or woman I wonder who's idea of a perfect man or woman influenced what was shown on t.v and how that may change with our changing views of perfection.