Monday, October 29, 2018

Young Boys and Being Told to "Man up"

(/https://indianexpress.com/article/parenting/family/parenting-gender-toxic-masculinity-5423440/)



The link takes you to an article that talks about why we should not tell young sons to "be a man". I feel this is something that needs to be talked about more. Everywhere young boys I'm sure are being told not only by their fathers but mothers also that are basically grooming them to be emotionless robots in the future. Like the article states we must let our sons express their full range of emotions. Like with daughters they can cry, be vulnerable, be upset and no one tells them to grow up or man up. I believe that if we taught our sons that expressing themselves and not keeping all these negative emotions inside and only being aggressive things in the world could possibly be very different.

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