In this article, Shaw and Lee describe how the action of labels about being "feminine" or "masculine" affects society. Shaw and Lee describe what gender is, “the social organization of sexual difference” (124). In biology, gender refers to a person's sex, and in culture, gender refers to how a person should act and present themselves. They mention that gender is what we are taught to do in our daily lives from a young age so that it becomes natural (Shaw, Lee 126). They talk about the process of gender socialization that teaches us to act and think based on a person's sex. Shaw and Lee assert that many people identify as transgender, which implies a person "resisting the social construction of gender into two distinct categories, masculinity and femininity, and working to break down these constricting and polarized categories" (129 ). They write about how, in mainstream America, masculinity and femininity are portrayed, with the masculine trait being the more dominant of the two. They define how this contributes to placing a higher value on one gender over the other, called gender classification (Shaw, Lee 137). They also explain that in order for femininity to be considered, other systems of inequality must first be examined (Shaw, Lee 139). This article was written to bring attention to the way men and women act because of the way they have been thought to think about themselves. Shaw and Lee explain how biology determines a person's gender, but a person's culture determines how that person should act based on their gender (Shaw, Lee 124). The article emphasizes that “a person's gender is something they accomplish daily, it is what we do rather than what we have” (Shaw, Lee 126). They... middle of paper ... male students had no problem making friends with me, as did the female students. I knew a lot more “emotional” male students who were bullied, mostly by other male students. The main point of this article was to show that femininity is still seen as a bad thing due to the traits attributed to it. It also speaks to the fact that people are treated; whether they are different masculine or feminine, if they tend to lean more towards the feminine side. A person's gender is how they act and how they are, but it is not who they are and that is the general argument of this article (Shaw, Lee 126).Works CitedBart.Brains as Pie Chart.CartoonStock.com.Web.bron1873. Shaw, Susan and Janet Lee. Women's voices, feminist visions: classic and contemporary readings. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009.Print