Could gender roles interchangable in the society?
I think it is quite interesting to talk about the differences between male and female on physical and emotional part. We all know that on the perspective of biology, boys and girls are so different, but little did I know was those differences could also influence us emotionally, which makes boys and girls are more different some way. To most of the girls, they are very careful on things, no matter how small they are. They pay attention to the details. However, boys usually don’t. Boys are usually more independent than girls because of the masculinity thing. They have been told that as men they must be strong, so they tend to not show their feelings to the others. Especially in public because they don’t want to be treated as weak. On this part, the advantage of being a girl starts showing up, women are free to show their emotions to the others even in the public, and no one will judge or criticized about them being not that strong. I don’t know how the other girls will react when they watch a very touching movie in the movie theatre, I used to cry a lot when I watch the movie really gets my heart, it is so hard to control those feelings. As a man, they must take more responsibilities in the family than women, which is another reason let men be strong. I found something very interesting about why women would be relatively more verbally aggressive than men, but men are more physically aggressive than women. On the biological side, women have menstrual cycles, and they make women very emotional for no reason when they come. Just take me as an example, last month when I was in my period, I was a little bit moody and upset, things become unforgivable to me even they are very small during the normal time. My date is relatively busy, and I always know that, and it is acceptable for me that he could not contact me or reply to my messages often. However, I was very upset when he didn’t reply to my messages like he usually does due to his busy work, it was Saturday and I was alone in my apartment, and I was in a severe stomach cramp. Suddenly I felt everything was just horrible, and I was very angry that he didn’t reply to my message. When he finally called me the next morning, I said something in a very sarcastic way, I didn’t realize that I was very verbally aggressive. Besides the gender, I think the nurture, which the environment plays an important role in our personality build up. For example, some of us might have been told by the elders that somethings that men can do but women can’t, or there are somethings that women can do but men can’t. I think this might be called as gender roles or the distribution of the social responsibility. Such as feeding babies, cooking, doing house cleaning are usually women’s jobs. Going out to work, carrying heavy stuff, and protecting the family are usually men’s tasks. The development of the society impacts how people think nowadays compare to 40 even 50 years ago, the gender roles become blurry in some extent. Women can also pursuit their careers, making a lot of money as men, and supporting the family as the men. Men can also do the home chores such as doing the laundries, cooking, even changing the diapers for the babies. It seems that the gender role has been switched in this modern society but in my opinion, I think it is more like the family members help each other than doing their individual things, there is no clear boundaries for men and women in a family, and I think that is a great progress in the human history.
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