Popular Culture and Gender Identification
In the United States and throughout the world the popular culture has both reflected and created the identity of the individual and that larger population. One of the most important aspects of a person's identity is their gender. This is a socially constructed label that is applied to someone, most often based upon their physical sex. However, there are many cases wherein a person's gender identification is different than their physical sex which makes them "other" in the community and makes them the easy target of emotional and sometimes physical abuse. Popular culture is an important part of the structure of identity and this can include gender identification. In such television programs as How I Met Your Mother and South Park the ways in which characters illustrate their own gender identification and the value that they have in society based upon the strength of that identification reflect the psychology of the American cultural landscape.
Gender identification is usually classified as male or female, man or woman. According to the article "Barbie Girls vs. Sea Monsters," children and their social group dictate the identity of the individual long before we are cognizant that this is happening (Messner, page 384). In that case, Messner witnessed two groups of children, one of boys and one of girls. The set of boys began listening intently to a group of girls singing and dancing to the traditional female toy, Barbie. When the boys became aware that other boys besides themselves were listening to the girls, the need for maleness took over and the boys began protesting the girls' conduct. Individually, a single boy may have the inclination to play with the girls and interact in behaviors that were suited to the opposing gender. However, when they are in a group of other boys, the need to seem masculine and not other supersedes their need for individuality.
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