In this article, Shaw and Lee describe how labels on being “feminine” or “masculine” influence society. Shaw and Lee describe what gender is like, “the social organization of sexual difference” (124). In biology gender is a person's sex and in culture gender is how a person should act and represent themselves. They mention how gender is what we are taught to do in our daily lives from a young age so it can become natural (Shaw, Lee 126). They talk about the process of gender socialization that teaches us how to act and think based on a person's sex. Shaw and Lee state that many people identify as transgender, which involves a person, “resisting the social construction of gender into two distinct categories, masculinity and femininity, and working to break down these constraining and polarized categories” (129). They write about how in mainstream America masculinity and femininity are described 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 gender called genre classification (Shaw, Lee 137). They also talk about how, in order to see femininity, other systems of inequality must also be considered first (Shaw, Lee 139). This article was written to bring attention to the way men and women act because of how they were thought to think about themselves. Shaw and Lee explain how biology determines a person's sex, but a person's culture determines how that person should act based on their gender (Shaw, Lee 124). The article raises the point that “a person's gender is something a person performs on a daily basis, it is what we do rather than what we have” (Shaw, Lee 126). They… middle of the paper… the male students had no problem making friends with me, as well as the female students. I knew many more “emotional” male students who were bullied, mostly by other male students. The main purpose of this article was to show that femininity is still seen as a negative thing due to the characteristics that have been given to it. It also brings out the fact that people are cared for; if they are different males or females, if they tend to lean more towards the female side of the gender. A person's gender is how they act and what they are like, but it is not who they are and that is the general topic 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 reading. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009.Print