Male Gender Roles In Society

This week we talked about gender roles and since last week our main focus was females, thisweek we
focused on males. We talked about how important it is for men in our society to act tough, strong, and the way men "should" according to our society. We watched a few videos about how to break that mold and how men and women can both help change society's feelings towards gender. We also talked a lot about how we feel about boys and men and what their dominant characteristics should be and as it turned out, we all had very similar beliefs and those beliefs were in line with society's as well. It is weird to think about how strongly ingrained these characteristics are in our brain because I have never once sat back and thought about gender roles in the ways we have in class this week.

I have never stopped to realize how strongly we push men into a certain mold especially since I have been in a situation almost my entire life where that goes against that mold. My parents got divorced when I was 4 years old and since then, during the time I have spent with my dad, my dad has taken on both the mom and dad role. Growing up like that for so many years has made me closer to my dad and even when he got married just a few years ago, I still think of him in the way I always have even though he has a wife now. He used to make me my lunches and is the one who coordinates all of the things going on in my life. This isn't the typical role of a father in society but at the same time, this is all I know because this is what he has done my entire life and even though my dad is a man, he can do the same things just as well. Society needs to learn to accept that.