A Sissy Has His Right To Do What He Wants
In the modern world, especially in Taiwan, everyone is very selfish and everyone just pay attention to his or her own interests and benefits. And thatЎ存 because what we are taught to be competent and competitive or to be the most superior in a group. From our childhood, competition has been the keynote of students in Taiwan when they are in the schools. And it is not difficult to understand that thatЎ存 the result of the emphasis of Ў呃ompetition.ЎЁ So, we can see now even though in a national, free and open university which is full of open students and varieties of information, those issues of taking care of minor groups, the implement of fair rights, or learning to be respectful toward others are still less discussed and receive less attention. As a consequence, people are becoming indifferent to the minor groups who are inferior or to them or different from them, such as sissies, gays, lesbians, people who get AIDS, or the crippled. However, those people are not willing to be that way themselves so why can we take more care of them or show more concern for them.
If you are a male, do you enjoy kissing a cat or doing some house chores? If someoneЎ存 answer is positive, he may run the risk of being regarded as too feminine. WhatЎ存 wrong with him? Actually, social norms try to strictly classify people into two gender stereotypes. One is femininity and the other is masculinity. Men are expected to be sturdy in behaviors, aggressive in personalities and hard in muscles, while women should be mild, sweet-natured and weak. And on condition that either of the two genders crosses the conspicuous gender line, a female will be called a tomboy, whereas a male called a sissy.
The gender character can be called sex character, which is the gender distinction built up by our societies and cultures. And gender character is the teaching, encouragement and expectation from our societies. Different behaviors are showed according to the societies and cultures. The gender character is a type of behavior standard expected by the societies. At the same time, the gender character also determines many behaviors of males and females in the daily life. That males are distinct from females is a standard social norm.
In some circumstances, boys tend to be greatly blamed if they act like girls. For example, a mother is, in fact, more worried if her son plays Barbie dolls. On the contrast, a mother is instead less worried if her daughter acts like a boy, such as fighting with others, playing basketball or always wearing pants. These cases indicate that men actually have a higher social rank than women in the society of paternalism. Perrin in his article Ў劫he Androgynous MaleЎЁ has said Ў低ompletely masculine men are quite often wonderful people: good husbands, good (though sometimes overwhelming) fathers, good members of society. Furthermore, they are unselfconsciously at ease in the world that other men seek to imitate them. They just arenЎ宇 as free [next page]