Gender Policing Handcuffed.

We are proud to present,our next guest writer, the cheerful, charismatic and intellectual Tanvi Jadhav!

Gender policing is the imposition or enforcement of normative gender expressions on an individual who is perceived as not adequately performing, through appearance or behavior, the sex that was assigned to them at birth (see gender performativity). Gender policing serves to devalue or delegitimize expressions that deviate from normative conceptions of gender, thus reinforcing the gender binary.
Wait! What on Earth was that complex definition you ask? Don't you worry people I shall explain that with easy examples. 

Gender policing is when a relative says "You have to cook the food,you are the girl of the house" or when the neighbour says " Son,can you come help me with the car? You are like the son I never had". Simple everyday sentences uttered by people in passing too can be classified as Gender Policing. So basically gender policing is devaluing those actions or behaviour of a person that do not neatly conform with our expectations of what is gender appropriate.

In the past,I have heard many people passing  nasty comments on ones behaviour,attitude,dressing sense with respect to their gender. I believe judging people with respect to their gender is a big  drawback of our society. This is what the internet in technical terms calls Gender Policing. 

I think  Gender Policing  is affecting our society badly as it sets gender as an influential marker and this happens to be like  an inconsequential choice has been made for us based on our Gender and how society expects us to act.

                

I strongly feel that gender policing can be stopped only if the members of the society that is if all of us change our attitude pertaining to certain things like , if we believe that it is absolutely fine if a guy likes pink or a girl loves to play football and most importantly if we stop punishing a man or woman for not acting true to their gender or rather not acting according to the expectations of society.

-Tanvi Jadhav