九大事实为证：传统的性别角色?胡扯！_BEC初级作文

九大事实为证：传统的性别角色?胡扯！

Remember the good old days when men were men and women were women? You know, when the manliest of men wore their hair long and curly with their best high heels.

还记得昔日那美好的时光吗？那时，男人还是男人，女人还是女人。你知道吗？那时最具男子气概的男人留着卷曲的长发，穿着他们最好的高跟鞋。

Oh, maybe you were imagining a slightly different picture of modern gender? Consider the earring. Associated exclusively with women for about 200 years, guys have recently started to reclaim them. "In the last two decades," Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, told The Huffington Post, "men have gotten in touch with their inner pirate."

奥，也许刚刚你想象的现代性别图景稍稍有些不同。想想耳饰吧。200年以来，人们只把耳饰同女性联系起来，但最近，男人们已经开始重新佩戴耳饰了。“最近二十年来，”纽约时装技术学院博物馆馆长瓦莱丽•斯蒂尔告诉《赫芬顿邮报》说，“男人们已经听到他们内心的呼唤了。”

While there are real biological differences between the sexes, gender is generally considered to be a social construction -- it can be pretty much whatever we want it to be, and we've wanted it to be a lot of things over the years. Below, find some ways our perception of gender presentation has already changed from the past to present.