Counter Culture

Today, after listening to Guante's poem, it truly opens up the idea to everyone that ads today and stereotypes that are heavily listened to are degrading and wrong. No man or women should ever have to be judged or judge themselves based on their appearance and who they are. Unfortunately the world today shaped our views and has effected every single person in this world, whether the believe it or not. We are surrounded with images, phrases, stereotypes that constantly make us rethink who we are and make many of us follow unspoken rules to be "normal". What is normal, cisgender, is a word that essentially means you grew up to be a boy when you were born male, or you grew up to be  girl when you were born a female. This word is attempting to make you think,  this word attempts to denormalize the idea of being normal. In my opinion it accomplishes this, and makes the audience think about titles and if they really matter.  Yes I am a female who grew up to be a confident girl, I am cisgender. This word can easily come off as weird to others because it seems different because maybe it sounds like transgender, because it is not normal, but it is nothing to be ashamed of. It shows that anyone should be able to associate themselves with what they want. No one, no ads, no images, no society should tell them who they have to be.