As children grow up and begin to take their first steps into the American education system, they are taught to follow the wisdom of three important figures: their parents, their teachers and Dr. Seuss. As they try to take on the simple yet challenging concepts of Seussism, the children embark on their own search for identity. Like Dr. Seuss, we often encourage the little ones in our lives to "be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don't matter and those who think don't matter" (Dr. Seuss Quotes, n.d.); but who decides how you should feel and what it means to “be yourself”? Better yet, what makes it acceptable for a little girl to wear cargo shorts and baggy t-shirts but wrong for a boy to wear a dress and a flower in his hair? These conflicting values ​​of what is accepted or what is rejected when it comes to boys and girls, men and women, are the representation of gender in our society. Gender, it seems, has not become a person's social association towards one sex or another, but yet another playground for inequality within our society. There are over seven billion people on Earth and none of them are the same. However, throughout our society, there are established norms that make women similar to females and males similar to males. Women must be feminine and men must be masculine. Furthermore, not only are women and men supposed to be similar only in their sex, but a woman acting like a “man” or a man acting like a “woman” seems to change the balance of the universe. In his text The Gendered Society, Kimmel explains that “this 'interplanetary' theory of complete and universal gender difference” is the equivalent of gender inequality. He goes on to explain that “when we talk about gender we also talk about… half paper… nanny society – that will be the moment in which everyone, children and adults, will be able to understand its true meaning. behind the Seuss-isms. It will be in that moment that we will understand that "sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"... simple like "today it is you, this is truer than true. There is no one in the world who is more yours than you” (Dr. Seuss Quotes, n.d.). Works Cited by Dr. Seuss Quotes (author of Green Eggs and Ham). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/61105.Dr_SeussJhally, S., & MacLeod, K (Directors). (2009). Codes of gender identity and performance in pop culture [film]. MA: Media Education Foundation. Kimmel, M. S. (2000). Gender society. New York: Oxford University Press. Pascoe, C. J. (2012). Dude, You're a Faggot: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.