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Society is shaped by, among other things, two major components: gender and popular culture. These factors have been studied and defined hundreds of times. Theorists have written articles in an attempt to educate the rest of us about the true meanings of these two words. Gender, basically defined, means not someone’s sex, but their sexuality. The way in which people act. For instance, if a woman is nurturing, sympathetic, domestic, emotional, and involved in her appearance, she is feminine; she is female. On the other hand, when a man acts strong, tough, industrial, and rugged, he is masculine; he is male. It is not mandatory that a man has to be masculine and a female feminine; however, our society makes it difficult to act in any other way. As Peter Livesey wrote, the origin of these societal norms needs to be found in order for them to be broken. This means that until we can break the media, government, and religion from making people feel that their sex must be in accordance with their gender, people ar