Gender Identity

I think popular culture does affect how gender role is viewed by the majority, but mostly it depends on how males and females act into society. Everybody's view on gender role differs, but generally it's viewed as men being the hard workers that support the family financially, and women taking care of the children at home. Men being the masculine type, and females being the feminine type. But, if you look at transvestites that's not the case, there are a lot of men who change the way they physically look into females, because they believe that they are more feminine, and have feelings that a man can't show in public. Transvestites look strange to the public because they're "not" supposed to exist, and that's probably what the majority thinks about it. Through media they are also viewed as being abnormal people, if you take a look at this youtube video Chris Crocker on Maury! where Maury Povich interviews Chris Crocker(who's a transvestite), at the end of the video Maury says, "America will never ever forget you," and thats probably because he's abnormal, and they way the crowd looks at him is different from looking at a normal person who's gender identity/role is the same as the others. The fundamental, innate gender differences is not exactly what makes people the way they are, or else there wouldn't be any transvestites, but it's the way people feel about themselves that make them act in a certain behavior.