A Sissy Has His Right To Do What He Wants
free as us androgynes. They pretty nearly have to be what they are; we have a range of choices openЎЁ (130-31). The paragraph showed us the idea that if a man is tied up by the stereotype of the role as a he-man, he will lose much pleasure in doing many things. In fact, the behavior itself does not have the differences of genders. One cannot say that Ў§to fix up a carЎЁ or Ў§to play basketballЎЁ are male whereas Ў§to straighten the house upЎЁ or Ў§to baby-sitЎЁ are female because it is really ridiculous a thing that we have never heard of. What must be emphasized is the pleasure in doing things, not the social expectations which limit everyone to a certain realm of what he or she should do. And in PerrinЎ¦s Ў§The Androgynous MaleЎЁ, he states that Ў§ I feel free to kiss cats. Until recently it never occurred to me that I would want to do, though my daughters have been doing it all their lives. . . . He is a big, handsome farm cat named Petrushka, very unsentimental, though used from kittenhood to being kissed on the top of the head by Elizabeth. IЎ¦ve gotten very fond of him (heЎ¦s the adventurous kind of cat who like to climb hills with you), and one night I simply felt like kissing him on the top of the head, and did. Why did no one tell me sooner how silky cat fur isЎЁ (131). I know the feeling of kissing a cat is very comfortable for a catЎ¦s fur is really like the that of a toy bear which you can see in the toy department. I am now raising a cat and from the paragraph, I can learn that in America, even kissing a cat will be taken as a feminine behavior. Nevertheless, in Taiwan, in my dormitory, everyone of my roommate likes the adventurous cat very much, named Lion and adventurous the same as Petrushka, because those he-men like my roommates really say that how cut a cat can be, and hold my cat tightly to feel the soft and beautiful fur. They do not tend to think that such a behavior is man-like or woman-like.
In the eastern society, men possess the dominance over almost everything while women are ranked on a lower and passive status. As a result, when a girl imitates what a boy behaves, she is only thought of as conflictive with the gender expectations and she tries to pursue the dominance form a lower status. However, if a boyЎ¦s behaviors are like a girl, who is likely to be thought to give up his dominant status and thus be blamed. So, sissies are more likely to be thought of as a sickness while tomboys as cool. And men are the main speakers in the public so if they act like a female, he is bound to receive more blame. In fact, the differences of the behaviors of females and males are [next page]