The way a man acts does not dictate how he really is. How people behave depends on the situation and circumstances at the time. A woman can be passive and submissive as a wife in relation to her husband and active and responsible in relation to her children or a man can be dominant as a husband and father in relation to his wife and children but submissive in relation to his children. as an employee. in relation to his boss or as a son in relation to his parents (Johnson 62). Johnson argues that people are not born with autonomous traits. Men and women are not accustomed to a particular set of character traits. They both act differently depending on the situation. In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, Ms. Katherine showed different and diverse characteristics depending on the situation she was in. When she was teaching in the classroom, she was strong, bold, rational and active (all traits attributed to men) and when she was with Bill Dunbar (the Italian teacher) she was emotionally expressive, weak and shy (all traits attributed to women). Masculinity and femininity tell us relatively little about who we are because we are complicated beings who reveal themselves differently from one situation to another. We are not autonomous, self-contained “personalities,” but relational beings whose feelings and behavior are shaped in ways