Do you think boys and girls are treated equally?
I think that boys and girls are treated equally because girls like different things to boys and boys like different things to girls. Jessica, London. England I think girls are the same as boys because we are able to join the army and we are able to play the same sports as them. Some people might disagree with me.
Do you feel like you don't get the same opportunities as boys?
New research by Girl Guiding UK suggests that more than 7 out of 10 young girls say they've experienced sexism and feel they don't get the same opportunities as boys. The survey of more than 1,200 7 to 21 year olds also showed nearly 9 out of 10 think they're judged on how they look rather than what they do.
Are teenage boys adopting a softer form of masculinity?
Back then, teenage boys were homophobic, misogynistic, and aggressive. They distanced themselves from anything deemed gay or feminine. Imagine my surprise, then, when I found out that these teenage boys today have adopted a new, softer version of masculinity.
Do you think we’ve made any progress in letting men embrace feminine sides?
We’ve made essentially no progress at all in terms of letting men embrace their feminine sides. You can see a little girl dress up as Luke Skywalker, and everyone will think it’s great. But in most places in the world the idea of a little boy dressing up as Princess Leia from Star Wars is going to cause a lot more hesitation.
Why do boys objectify women?
Boys (and men) objectify girls (and women) because they can’t bear to feel their own fear, their own longing for intimacy, their own vulnerability and need for tenderness. They can relate to and control an object in ways they can’t relate to or control a feeling or a fear. Of course we disapprove of their behaviour.
When a boy refers to a girl as "it" rather than "she"?
When a boy refers to a girl as ‘it’ rather than ‘she’, we tell him how disrespectful he’s being. When boys refer to girls, not in terms of their personalities, but in terms of their bodies, especially their sexual bodies, we say how wrong that is. How wrong, how disrespectful, how rude. The boys walk off, bristling with hostility.
What are the effects of teaching men to be wary of all things feminine?
And teaching men to be wary of all things feminine, including traits associated with femininity —again, like sensitivity, and tenderness, and openness—has grim effects on men down the road. Early on, academic performance suffers when we restrict them to traditionally masculine activities.
Who designed the 'You can hang with the boys'?
Design by Perri Tomkiewicz. The genders aren’t treated equally. You can tell, because it’s the 21 st century and we’re still living in a world where the feminine is seen as inferior to masculine. Want proof? “You’re like a guy, you’re not like other girls.” “You can hang with the boys.” “You’re able to have sex like a dude.”.
What did Bell Hooks learn about sissiness?
He learned that from someone, perhaps another group of boys who would mock him if he showed any signs of sissiness. This behavior is pretty well documented by bell hooks, who talks about how the patriarchy forces kind, tender boys to become stoic men of action in The Will To Change.
What happens if a man doesn't open up to his anger?
Even when it doesn’t, all of this makes for a seemingly more isolated life than men should have, and a more isolated, self-loathing life than women ought to have.
What does rejection of all things feminine mean?
Rejection of all things feminine isn’t born into boys. We teach them to reject traits traditionally associated with femininity, like gentleness, empathy and sensitivity. And we teach them to do so early. We teach it every time we tell them to toughen up when they’re hurt. We teach it when we tell them that big boys don’t cry.
Do men open up to their partner?
Whereas men generally don’t. If they open up at all, it’s usually to their partner.”. If men don’t have the means to deal with their anger and frustration in a healthy fashion, it can have deadly consequences. If men don’t have anyone to open up to, or the means to deal with their anger and frustration in a healthy fashion, ...
Who was the boy who was hanged for being gay?
Early this month, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old boy from Springfield, Mass., hanged himself after months of incessantly being hounded by his classmates for being “gay.” (He was not; but did, apparently, like to do well in school.)
Who is Judith Warner?
Judith Warner is the author of “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety,” a New York Times best-seller.
What is the meaning of "spending unprecedented amounts of time and money on their hair, their skin and their bodies"
Essentially accepting the highly sexualized identity imposed on them, long before middle school, by advertisers and pop culture.
Do middle schoolers get homophobia?
They don’t get homophobia, and I think that even when they were in middle school they would have had no patience with the kind of harassment you describe. The phenomenon you describe is not simply homophobia, but it is rooted in and facilitated by homophobia. Homophobia itself, like sexism, needs to be eradicated.
Is cruelty inevitable?
Cruelty is not inevitable. I do think that a higher expectation of kindness in society in general is a good thing. Maybe if parents didn’t insult and slap their kids then those kids wouldn’t bully other kids, and etc. But the idea that all the problems in the world are caused by this word or that word is a nonstarter.
Is homophobia a prescriptive term?
Homophobia itself, like sexism, needs to be eradicated. And children need to learn (this must be taught by parents & in schools) that “masculine” and “feminine” may be descriptive (what the terms actually mean should always be open to question), but they must never be prescriptive.
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