Well...

My own definition of gender. Well, at its base, your sex is simply anatomical: male or female. Gender, however, is not such a black and white things that I can sum up in one or two witty, pithy, brilliantly composed, life changing sentences. (at least not with humility.) But I could try. Gender, to me, is who a person is. What they enjoy, what they identify with, or who they identify with. For example, my sex is female, but I enjoy playing sports, a decidedly manly activity according to society. But, I enjoy it...its part of who I am you could say. I think that the problem with this idea is well, THIS IS AMERICA. Americans think that people shouldn't be different from the norm, and the norm, as far as traits, for men and women was decided, oh, thousands of years ago. Which, when you think about it, is one of the only things that we have kept around from that long ago. Doesn't really make sense. People are influenced all the time by the American media, telling them that its too girly for a man to cook. Its too manly for a girl to like football, or to work on a car. That's huge. I would argue that the media and society accounts for like, 95% of the populations idea of gender and what it should be like. But it really should be a completely individual thing, an understanding of oneself, an acceptance that is often denied to people who are not decidedly masculine or feminine.