Gaga’s Feminism

     We began to discuss this article Monday in class and the few quotes we found were very interesting which brought up more topics such as Disney’s characters.  How gender roles played a huge part in majority of their stories.  Jafar, in Aladdin, where he was considered the villain as he was feminine and how majority of women are hopeless and need to be saved by the all American prince.  We also discussed how gender roles identify our sex throughout our entire lives dealing with colors, dressing, and activities from early in our childhood. 

     “Children are different from adults in all kinds of meaningful ways.  They inhabit different understandings of time, and experience and the passing of time differently.  They also seamlessly transition between that adults would not ordinarily connect in conversation.” Pg xxiii

     “If some masculine women themselves as the penetrators rather than the penetrees, then we speak of terms of pathology and we name that category in terms of its resistance to norms.  We do not speak of men, but we do think in terms of ‘stone butch’; this allows for butches to be caricatured as rigid, or immobile or frozen.”  Pg 86.  That stands out to me because if a woman shows her masculine side then he world judges her as thousands of different things besides what is right.  It happens all the time especially dealing with women who play sports.   When guys go into fields such as hair and makeup they are categorized as gay.  There is a movie called beauty shop in which that really shows how people judge men in feminine considered jobs, who wasn’t gay, but the assumption was there.