Take More Responsibility
“Come on, dude! Be a man!” As a man, I am supposed to be brave and dare to handle emergent situations. In Chinese tradition, man should hold the family, which means a gender role of a man is to take more responsibility.
When I was little, I often can’t help cry. Sometimes I just could not hold my emotion and cried. For example, when I saw some moving movies or when I was bullied by other children, I would cry. When I grow bigger, I started to know that males are not supposed to cry…
In the past few years in China, there was a phenomenon that the female must do the housekeeping because of poverty, and being the master of cooking became the advantage of marrying the other half from a rich family. The old days have passed, but some old tradition has also passed down. Women tend to have…
Like most living creatures in the earth, human are categorized into male and female. Members in this two groups have their specific roles in human society. I believe it is not only biological problem, but also sociology and anthropology problem when we…
Gender Role: Education
There are a lots gender roles in society, many Chinese want a boy instead of a girl, so they treat the boy way better than the girl if they have a boy and a girl at the same time. In ancient China, female has three obedience and four virtues. They must obey their father, husband and son, in addition of…
As a girl, I had dreamed thousands times to be a boy. (This doesn’t mean I’m a homosexual) The first time I started to have this weird thought was because someone told me that it really hurts when women give birth to babies. I can’t imagine that one day…
When I was young(maybe around primary school), sometimes I would like to spend hours thinking about a question: what if the nurse took out my sister first?
I have a twin younger sister. I was born just 5 minutes earlier than her.
“Ladies first” I hear this everywhere, and it is one of the famale gender roles that has benefited me and I think it benefits all the famales. Take the most recent example, when Chi and I wanted to express our opinions at the same time in class, Chi let me speak first…Another one…
When we talk about gender roles, the most famous one in the whole world can be the role which is “lady first”. This role not only acts in China but also in America. For my personal perspective, the reason behind “lady first” can be various. For example, in the past hundreds years, females always act a…
Since I was born, my parents have told me that a male must be masculine and have more responsibility. Therefore, when facing difficulties, I have to be rational and brave, or pretend to be. Because of the common social attitude toward males, males always have no way to express their own emotion and have to…