Gender Roles

I think that gender roles are still being learned from watching men and women such as your parents, the media, and other reinforcements. Even though gender roles are still a big piece of societal norms, I think that gender roles are being broken more and more these days.
An example that I can think of in my life is when I play sports. I play in a co-ed softball league. People are all different ages from 18 to 60. I think that people use non-verbal cues, such as dress, height, weight, etc. to adjust where and how they stand on the infield and in the outfield. I am not a big person, I am only about 5 feet 2 inches and being a girl, people always move in. I think that women have had the gender role of watching men play sports, cooking and cleaning. When I got up to bat everyone moved in, that was playing in the outfield. They never expected that I would hit the ball farther then where they were standing before they moved in.
I think that I am androgynous, because I combined what were masculine traits with feminine traits. I think that this goes both ways in that in that women can take on some "masculine" traits and men can take on some "feminine" traits.