Many people have accepted that there are certain ways in which men are allowed to act and there are certain ways that women are allowed to act. Throughout our childhood, we are taught to accept the conventional ways of our gender, which we go along with, without any out cries. Society has shaped the traits of men and women alike, but many men and women are breaking the obstacles our society has put upon them.

Americans have a traditional sense of family, with each person following the classical family standards. The role of the male gender is to be rough and tough and to not stand up to anything that would extract their feminine side. In turn, having that man be labeled “queer.” Part of the reason is the generation of parents who are raising children today, the “baby-boom generation,” grew up with the way that their parents raised them. Mass numbers of them aged with the idea that everything must be one way, and the stereotypical idea is that men are the providers and that women are the housewives. This is one way that the separation from men and women is shown, in that a man is the one who ha

Being Americans, we have the ability to set change in the world, and make what was unchangeable or unthinkable happen. For instance, in today’s world, there is more talk about the AIDS virus, and about twenty years ago, it was virtually unheard of, but we have been able to break through that boundary. Feminism is one of these boundaries, upon which women choose to accept it for what it is; because their subconscious’ tell them that they must accept it, in order to “fit in” with society. Masculinity is very broad, due to the fact that men are expected to not only to be the backbone, but must also perform the necessary tasks at hand. In order for men and women to break through this barrier, both must haphazardly go into what forces them to be what they choose not to, and in a sense, rebel against their own self, by destroying what stereotype each has set before them. There will always be a societal boundary which one must choose to cross, or not to cross, but it is up to their own self to decide what sets them apart from what makes them a man or women. We are not restricted to feminism or masculinity by how society

The roles of men and women are

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