Saturday, May 30, 2020

Sex, Gender and Emotions: Boys don't cry

Our Western culture often has a perverse idea that is unreasonable of binary gender emotion. The widely believed design we all bought into is the stereotype that to be masculine, emotion can't be shown, otherwise it is a feminine behavior and shown to society as weak. This stereotype has infected humanity and become a power social force in constructing and reinforcing the false belief that it is a 'sex' category that will determine whether the person is more reasonable or emotional. This normalization of the effectiveness of society and institutions inhabiting this false aspect of a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others has polluted our human nature. We as a society act as if boys, men alike are not in fact not conditioned with being flesh and blood; basically of being human. If not that, then what are they? Do males, not have the same capacity as women to experience, the senses? The aptitude in which we all as human beings have a sensitivity to or intuitive understanding of our own characters, based on what our natural ability derives, has nothing to do with 'sex'. We all have those tendencies and males should not get pulled from, or removed from the truth, only because we have played part in those false characteristics and stereotypes of masculinity and femininity.

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