Mr/Mrs. Potato Head

After reading “Learning Gender” by Shawn and Lee I am dumbfounded of the  influence of gender in roles play in our  lives. It almost makes me aware of being identified more as just a human being than by gender. I can see people in hospitals giving birth to another human being under the classification as  fertile and infertile beings opposed to male and female. It makes me question the whole origins of sex and gender. This class makes me question a lot of things but being programmed to the adjectives towards gender norms is sad. I am convinced we are all just as confused  as the one’s who started the classification of what appropriate behaviors sanctioned for appropriate  behaviors and then learning to  perform what is expected of them. The whole culture of masculinity and femininity is interesting especially with advancement of technologies of removing and replacing one’s  gender identity to create a new one “gender swapping.” It almost seems like if we could be mister/misses potato heads with our gender parts literally choosing our sexual orientations every morning deciding whether or not to have breast and changing our genitals on our lunch breaks would seem ideal. But then again it seems a bit creepy knowing we are all judging each other by what we think each other has in our pants. I think we are all at the bottom of the food chain just trying to dominate the space at the top no one wants to be last or inferior. But then again nobody wants to be themselves either this planet is just a big ball of confusion rotating to the tune of insanity expecting a different result when all we're doing is existing. I guess soon we will be fighting over who gets the first hit of oxygen every second to breathe. I believe we are created to look and behave the way we need to in order to attract our tribe but our souls are happily gender free from  cultural adjectives and our bodies the vehicles we drive to help create all those beautiful things about life that we forget about.