Essay 2 Topic

I have to confess I haven't started writing my rough draft of this essay yet, and one of the main reasons is that I'm having trouble deciding what to write it on. I'm going in the direction of option 3. I think it would be interesting to write and explore how we push normalcy in our culture, because we really do. We even lie to ourselves about it... such as we say different it good... you should be an individual... as long as the way in which you decide to be an individual is in an accepted way that's normal. The assignment sheet says to pick one body-related issue to discuss, and I think gender roles and expectations would be very interesting. This is definitely seen in tv shows and advertisements. Gender roles have existed since the beginning of time, although some of the changes in our culture that have and are taking place make this an even more interesting topic, bc a lot of the new ideas allow for much more flexibility in one gender than the other, which leads to major questioning of what those normal gender roles now are.