Essays on Tomboy

Although not many of us realize it, gender is an important aspect in how we present ourselves in the society we interact with daily. The gender and sexuality of a person has an impact on his or her behavior, actions, and attitudes in general (West & Zimmerman). In order to see how gender influence actions, I decided to analyze my behavior myself. Immediately after waking up in the morning, I first check my phone for messages and updates from my social media accounts. Afterwards, I get up from the bed and go through my morning routines—washing my face, taking ...

The TED Talk show is called “Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms” presented by Ivan Coyote in November, 2015.

The performance is devoted to the issue of public places as being designed only for people who fit into the old traditional mainstream division of people into two genders. It lead to the situations when trans-gender people cannot use either the place for ladies or for men because of their gender identity. The problem concerns not only adults, but children too, since they cannot even use a toilet in their school due to this aspect. Moreover, it concerns not only public bathrooms, but also change rooms, pools, gyms, universities, etc.. and these places stop being actually public, but become ...

Psychology

Tomboy is a movie of mistaken identity, and as the movie moves along, Mikäel, who is actually Laure, befriends Lisa with whom she moves around rather physically. Laure manages to hide her true identity, but when an altercation with one of the boys of their group leads to trouble, Laure’s mother is forced to reveal her true identity to the friends. When the boys try to physically manhandle Laure to see her feminism, Lisa comes to her rescue. When Lisa checks Laure’s sex after sometime and finds Mikäel to be Laure, Lisa accepts her as she ...

The short story “Boys and Girls” (1968) by Alice Munro discusses a young girl’s coming of age, and her realization about what it means to be a girl in a society where gender roles preordained and stereotypes are highly prevalent. The author uses the young girl as the narrator who experiences an inner conflict, where she feels divided between what she wants to do in her life and what is expected of her. Munro’s choice of the setting of a rural area, more specifically a farm where sexism and gender based roles play much greater than in urban areas, is very fitting. ...

The society has always regarded women inferior to men since time immemorial. However, as time passed, the idea of women empowerment arose. Women and men in support of the idea used every channel available to convince the society to support women empowerment. Filmmakers and producers started to support the ideology through films. The fried green tomatoes film is an example of films whose objective was supporting the idea of women empowerment. Although some people doubt films, they are very influential as they show the current events in the society. Movie critics consider the fried green tomatoes a feminist film because ...

The movie Love and Basketball is a romantic American drama released in 2000. The story is about two teenage basketballers, Quincy and Monica who fell in love (Prince-Bythewood et.al, 2000). This movie clearly depicts adolescent development through the various scenes that are in line with adolescent theories. Monica has a heated argument with her mother where she confronts her mother for judging her style in dressing. She is a tomboy but the movie hardly equates her to being gay. This heated argument between Monica and her mother is in line with Sigmund Freud’s theory of adolescent development who believed that the ...