Take-Home Three I have certainly conformed to numerous traditional gender roles. As a woman, I grew up in a culture where some female traditions included playing dress up, pretending to be a princess, and wearing makeup to look pretty. I have conformed to some of these cultural normalities and deviated from some of them. For example, I love what our culture considers girls' colors. Even feminine patterns and designs that most guys would scoff at. I love purple, pink, glitter and anything cute. I also like to gossip, a behavior highly associated with girls. I don't like staying at home watching football and drinking beer on Sundays. When it comes to playing sports, however, I find that the feminine part of me is left behind. I am extremely competitive and take losing very hard and very seriously. I also love muscles, weight lifting and the gym, which is something men dominate. Watching my father influenced my taste in music, taste for sports and even ideas about life. These ideas received so much positive feedback that they became a part of me, and it's not something I was born with. It's something I've been influenced by. So I associate my sporting side with my father. Furthermore, by observing my mother I was able to see how girls were supposed to behave. She always had beautiful jewelry and beautiful clothes that I loved and was hugely influenced by. Media is also something that showed me gender roles, and even entertainment and cinema. I admired Disney movie princesses and dressed like them, acted like them, and sometimes even spoke like them. They taught me what it meant to be a girl. I also remember ads of girls wearing cute things, makeup and long, beautiful hair. These types of influences through media, family, television, books, and toys are what I think have contributed most to my gender role and how it has developed over the years.