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How Gender Roles Ruins Society

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gender roles dictates to us what's right or wrong and pleasing to society and how our attitudes, behaviors, and self-presentation methods should be pertaining to your biological sex. This includes norms for behavior, which some researchers have started to call “the rules of masculinity” which is completely wrong.an example of this is boys are told to not bear their imperfections to the public, to keep it private, boys are also told not to wear makeup cause its made for girls and it and it causes an impulsive reactions from people who find it distasteful. another way of how gender roles ruins society is it tells us boys that we shouldn't be too creative or people may think otherwise the way we wear our jeans shouldn't be too tight or we might …show more content…

and my last reason is gender roles organizes us in strategical patterns that will help future generations not to become

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