Rohit's Gender Bio

Raised as a first generation American, most people would assume that immigrant parents would heavily push their idea of gender and what it means to “be a man”. However, this wasn’t the case for me. As a child my parents never prevented me from playing with my sisters toys (they often gave me those toys to play with because they didn’t to keep buying me new ones), watching certain TV shows, such as the Powerpuff girls, or listening to certain music just because society deemed those things as feminine. Many kids were raised with a clear gender division in mind (girls do all the domestic tasks and boys do the strenuous labor), but my parents concentrated more of their time on school and studying. My sisters and I were and are all treated the same exact way when it comes to school work. We all get yelled at for not doing our homework, for not getting straight A’s throughout high school, and for not studying hard enough. There was no gender bias, just a lot of lectures about the importance of education. Regardless, most of the things I did was on my own will and that helped to maintain a very healthy relationship between my parents and I.