Gender based expectations? get back to the kitchen.
Canadian males committing suicide at a rate 4x higher than it's females and the University Of British Columbia would still tell a suicidal male to "Man Up" (http://www.manupagainstsuicide.ca/)
Defining what a person should be capable of without knowing them is inherently foolish.
Hard to get people to consider (or ascertain myself) just how prevalent these expectations are.
ReplyDelete^ an example; a person comments on the issue of male suicide saying "The culture of silence in male relationships is also a huge factor."
DeleteThis person is concerned that males are embarrassed to share their feelings and has indirectly shown us she (or he) expects there to be a culture that is persistent among the majority of male relationships, thereby indirectly indicating to us she has a definition of a "typical" male that is dysfunctional in some ways but functional in others - she has just made a generalization of the personalities of 50% of the worlds population at once, amazingly this goes completely unnoticed.
When you get a male saying things aren't fair for guys - I imagine he is taken as 1 complainer where there are many who dont. I imagine when a woman use to express that she doesn't want to have to keep herself and her house tidy all the time she was seen as a complainer, too.
of up to* 50% of the worlds population at once,
Delete^correction**