When it comes to gender roles and behaviors it appears to be that society is split about this topic. Deborah Blum argues that nurture and nature both have to be taken into account to understand gender differences; however, gender behaviors are definitely impacted more by nature. Based on science, statistics, and nature’s negative and positive reinforcements are what shapes a person into who they become. There needs to be an understanding of what is it that society is doing wrong so it can start going right. Everyone has different perspectives about things and that’s understandable but you cannot base everything on this one experience you had or even two. You need more than that to be able to argue something so extreme as is gender behaviors.…show more content… Science plays an important role when it comes to women and men’s development while in the womb and ever after that. Blum made an interesting comment saying “[I]t appears that sex doesn’t matter in the early stages of embryonic development. We are unisex at the point of conception” (Blum 513). This is a significant component because it gets people thinking if at some point everyone is unisex why is it that after birth gender roles are so important to society? Because society is reluctant about the unknown. Breedlove mentions that “[V]irtually everyone who interacts with that individual will note that he has a penis, and will, in many instances, behave differently, than if the individual was a female” (Blum 515). So it has been showed by science and statistics that people behave accordingly depending on the sex of the other person. This is science but it also has plenty to do with nature and how they were raised to behave depending on the opposite sex. This is all implying that, yes, everything has to do with nature and its time that everyone opens their eyes to the obvious. “[B]iology allows flexibility, room to change, to vary and grow” (Blum 514). Again reaffirming that biology is not the answer when it comes to gender behaviors. Blum states it more than once, people can change even when we are born males or females. Those changes occur because of nature, for example,…show more content… Nature’s partake in people’s everyday living is understandable individuals will behave the only way they know how to behave, for example if people hang around the wrong crowd there is a very high chance that they will turn out like them. A positive reinforcement is having an open minded family; they show their kid of either sex that they can do whatever it is they want to no matter their gender. However, if individuals hang around people that are going to college and genuinely care to graduate it will motivate them to want graduate. “[I]’m positive that the sexual transition of these children is less traumatic than the abrupt awareness of the ‘sisters who would have been brothers’” (Blum 514). Basically what Blum is explaining is that when society is open minded kids are not as traumatized by certain events because the reinforcement is positive and that’s always good. Nevertheless, there’s obviously negative reinforcement as well. For example, “[I]f they asked for a heavily armed action figure, thy got the soldier about 70 percent of the time. If they asked for a ‘girl’ toy, like a baby doll or a Barbie, their parents purchased it maybe 40 percent of the time” (Blum 516). These are statistics showing how from a very young age kids are formed into their ‘gender appropriate’ behaviors. This is enforcing they shouldn’t get ‘girl’ toys because it’s not the proper thing to do. These
