Is a man really a man, and a woman really a woman?.
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 has the most power, and therefore must have a strong and unforgiving sense over the family, if he has one. The woman is left to do the daily chores, which is to be her work for the rest of her life, which is the stereotypical role of the women. This is the way that the typical societal means of judging one's role as a male and female are set, but that does not signify their real roles as individuals.
When a man, or what society's definition of a man is, makes any effort to display but one feminine trait, he is looked down upon, but why? In today's world of fashion, one will see many women and also see many men, but when some people look at those men, some of their first thoughts are, "he must be "gay" if he is wearing that or if he is modeling.
