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Just as Janie had her own gender constraints i also have mine. although they may not be as harsh as it was for an african american woman back then, they are still constraints in my life because of my gender none the less. Just this past year i have really started to notice alot of different gender discrimination in my life. Most recently, about two or three weeks ago, my mom bought tickets for our family to go to the pageant of the masters. Right away my dad and i didnt want to go because we thought it was sort of a gay event. The night that we were scheduled to go my brother wore a polyester shirt that he thought looked like the shirts in saturday night fever. It was pretty funny until me and my dad realized where we were going and how he was dressed. we started making a bunch of jokes about how he was going to get hit on and how he looked gay. We both know that he is far from gay, but it really showed me that the minute that a guy wheres something that is the least bit flamboyant that he is going to be ridiculed for his sexuality because he is not dressing "manly". But i have girl friends that dress in basketball shorts or baggy pants and skater shoes all the time and their sexuality is never questioned.

Other examples in my life that i see of gender discrimination in my life are on television shows a lot. There are a lot of tv shows out there that portray women as the mans maid basically. Just like the clip of the man show i had they were going to wife school learning how to become better wives so they could server their husbands.

A final example of when i have witnessed gender discrimination in my life is for jobs. I was going to get a job at this one restaurant but i couldn’t because they only hired girls as clerks because they thought that it brought them better business i was just as qualified for the job but i couldnt get it because of my gender if i was born with different body parts then i would have been able to land the job.