Society has an ideal; whether it be an ideal body type, mental health or even an ideal outlook on how men and women act. As children we are pressed with these social norms of the two genders. Boys must play with trucks, wear blue, and never cry. While girls must play with dolls, dress as princesses and love the color pink. “Men were constructed primarily as breadwinners and women as mothers. For men, it was important to be healthy because this meant that they were able to enact their citizenship by providing economic support for their families. For women, health was essential as they were responsible for reproducing the nation through the birth of future citizens” (Penny Light, 324). In Anika Stafford’s article I Feel Like a Girl Inside: Possibilities for Gender and Sexual Diversity in Early Primary School she makes a real life recognition to the gender norms. “One day a seven-year-old came up to me, rubbing hands together, and announced conspiratorially, “so, they’re playing boys chase girls.” “Uh oh,” was my genuine response, “what should we do about that?” The student raised one finger in the air, a habit when making proclamations, and said: “I think I will tell them that anyone can play any part”” (Stafford, 9). At such a young age we are taught how the different gender should act and must act. Seeing young people challenge the way stereotypes view gender should be a wakeup call to those that don’t see an issue in society. “Notions of sexuality are deeply bound to binary gender normal” (Stafford, 12). Yet when does the urge to look a certain way become too much and make you do whatever is possible to fit those specific guidelines? And then who decides what is the “best” way to look for optimal health? “By the turn of the twentieth century, doctors in Canada had established themselves as the scientific experts on the body” (Penny Light, 323). It’s ironic that we rely so much on the voices of those medical experts yet when we take a step back and evaluate our own bodies we can find out so much more. Only we know how we are actually feeling about our self. Both medical and cosmetic surgery has become such a trend in the last twenty years. “In all of the cases, whether discussions about the need to repair or reconstruct some deformity or injury, or about the desire of patients to be altered for strictly cosmetic purposes, the ways in which society viewed men and women and what was valued in terms of their appearance were central” (Penny Light, 336). Whether it is for medical or cosmetic purposes it is every human’s rights to look however the choose to look and portray themselves. We are not stuck to the social norms that lie in society, we are unique and one of a kind and we should be proud of that.