It is not easy to look at oneself from outside and reflect on one’s traits and patterns of behavior. However, this is an attitude that helps an individual to learn some important things about his or her personality, understand how to communicate with other people in a more effective way, and, probably, consciously improve one’s character. Gender is one of the most important aspects and characteristics of the personality, which influences the individual’s worldview, formation, behavior, first as a child and then as an adult, and in this way shapes and directs the person’s entire life. People live in a world that practices “standardly assigning [a person] to a lifetime as a male or as a female” (Eckert and …show more content…
These are the recollections of how I liked a beautiful dress that I was wearing on holidays at the age of four and five. My perception of the color and fabric could have been defined as feminine, and it was a source of child’s delight, just touching the soft stuff and enjoying the rich colors, their combination and matching the color and style of my clothes. Would it have been looked upon as strange if a boy was doing that kind of thing? Probably, yes; however, I believe such “feminine” traits with boys are not a problem; rather, they are the indication of one’s unique individuality and should not be shunned. Other feminine traits, which can be classified as doing “girly things” include my being keen on cooking and dressing up. Cleaning is also the thing that I take easy can do well. These traits have been trained and developed in my family setting, with my mother and grandmother cooking well and all the family members appreciating their work. The thing I believe to be important here is sharing and helping, not just making a woman a cooking and cleaning