According to Johnny Weir, “Masculinity is what you think it is… [it's] all about perception, [I believe] that masculinity and femininity are something very old -fashioned… [there is a] whole new generation of people who are not defined by their race or their gender or who they like to sleep with. This statement exemplifies the definition of gender as a concept; gender is the expectation of a sex according to society's culture. Sexuality, within this definition of gender, reflects society's expectations, which are created in relation to the opposite sex. Differences between cultures mean that gender expectations change within different cultures. These expectations put pressure on each member of society to conform and respect the popular customs of their culture. Society's creation of gender expectations creates a restrictive definition of gender roles and sexuality that varies from culture to culture. Society has created gender roles and emphasized the differences between the two genders. Alma Gottlieb states, “The biological inevitability of sexual organs comes to represent a perceived inevitability of social roles, expectations, and meanings” (Gottlieb, 167). Sex is the scientific recognition that men and women are biologically different; gender derives from society's formation of the roles assigned to each sex and from the emphasis of the differences between the two sexes. Meaning-making centers on expectations of the roles each sex should play; society creates cultural norms that perpetuate these creations. Gender blurs the lines between differences created by nature and those created by society (Gottlieb, 168); gender represents the cultural expectations of the sexes, with the meaning assigned to the different...... center of the card ...... the person or woman actually identifies with the prescribed role depends on the socialization process and the way in which they identify with the prescribed role expectations of them. The social construction of gender and sexuality is all based on the extent to which people believe that there is a difference between the two sexes, once this emphasis is eliminated, gender roles will no longer play an integral role in the structure of society. Works Cited Gottlieb, Alma. “Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Approaches from Cultural Anthropology.” No longer exotic: anthropology at the forefront. Ed. Jeremy Mac Clancy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.Kilbourne, Jean. Killing us softly. Media Education Foundation, 2010.Lancaster, Roger N. Life is Hard, Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.