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Gender is one topic that has many different aspects. One of the more obvious aspects is sports. Men are usually favored more than ladies when it comes to playing sports. Sports just as basketball, football, and baseball are looked at like manly sports. When a women plays sports people automatically think they play soccer, or tennis. Men play sports because sports are intense, rough, and show they are a true man. Since we are children we are taught there are certain sports for girls and certain ones for boys. So, since we are let to believe this as children we carry it along forever. While children we see that men play strong sports and as little girls we feel that men are stronger, and tougher than girls. In addition, when playing sports women are not suppose to win, only suppose to lose in sports. When a man loses to a lady it affects then emotionally, but I thought that women are only suppose to be emotional.
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Guy sports vs. Ladies sports
 
Women are affiliated with the color pink, and guys with the color blue. Before a child is born the gifts given are either blue, or pink. When the sex of a child is unknown before birth people usually just give a yellow, or green color. People are categorized before they are even able to speak.
Appearance is also another very important aspect of gender. Ladies that wear make-up are true ladies that give respect to there gender. On the other hand, ladies that do not like to wear to much make-up are considered boy like, or tom boys.
Ladies with make-up and lots of pink vs. ladies with out make-up and sporty.
 
Next, another aspect of gender is politics. Politics has seemed to be a male position, so when people like Hillary Clinton run for president there are people that do not agree with a lady being a president. Women and men are equal, and this should be put into every aspect of our world.
Following, why are men still getting paid more than ladies? Men and women work the same jobs and do the same exact things, but men are still getting paid more than women. This is totally unfair, we are living in America and we are all suppose to be equal and all have the same rights and values. Also, some jobs such as construction workers or race track workers are looked at as a mans job. Ladies can be construction workers, and great race track drivers.
However, there is one thing that ladies can do that guys can not, and that is having children. Guys can not naturally deliver birth to a child. Ladies are suppose to carry a baby for nine months, and breast-feed the child. Ladies are expected to be emotional, loving, and nurturing; but some ladies are tough because they have to stand strong. Ladies are so nurturing when it comes to raising there children and taking care of them. This aspect of gender allows us to be superior to men, and something men can not accomplish.

Overall, man and women are equal, and we should be treated equally. Men and women should be looked as equally, and should be respected. Men and women each share different aspects to gender.
Lisa F.

This semester while registering for my winter semester classes I tried to get a physical education type class to help my G.P.A since I struggled last semester. When picking my class schedule my advisor let me know I had the choice of golf and kick boxing. While making my decision I thought of golf as just a whole bunch of middle age men trying to drop a little white ball in a two inch hole and when I thought of boxing I thought of learning how to knock somebody out with a three jab combo.  Since I’m not in to more physical sports like boxing, basketball, and football I picked Kick boxing.  When I arrived on my first day of class I stood out a whole lot only because I was the only male taking the class. Every single person in the class was female even the instructor was female, that was a big plus, but also a negative. The plus was I was the only guy so I had the majority of the female’s attention even when I was trying to get it. The negative was the work outs we did that was suppose to somehow relate to kick boxing. When I hear the word kick boxing I think of the Jon Claude Van Dam movie Blood Sport and the UFC fighting league not stretching on a yoga mat or doing step aerobics to who let the dogs out. It was real hard to get use to the work outs we did in class because I was used to playing basketball which you use physical strength to beat your opponent. Since there were only females in the class with the exception of me the class work outs was more feminine than masculine this made me kind of uncomfortable to do some of the exercises which was mostly stretching and dancing. After the first week of class I was seriously thinking about dropping the class, but I remembered that I was taking this class to help my grades and I was not taking it to just take it. When I made up my mind to stay in the class I started to think of the good side of keeping the class like using the class to help my manage my wind so I won’t get tired while playing basketball.  I also notice the support from the students in the class and the instructor on certain exercises I usually don’t do. After I looked past the fact was very feminine and focused on why I was there It seemed like I just breezed through the class.

Datrell-