The first cry of a baby irrespective of its gender is something that signifies his/her entry into the world. It is always the most joyous moment of a mother’s life. This assures the doctor as well that the baby has ticked one of the most important signs for survival. Then why as the years pass on and when we enter into our adulthood, Boys/Men are urged to hide their emotions, act strong in all the circumstances?
We often read quotes on women being restricted to many things, women being sensitive to a situation and many more. But we hardly read such quotes on men too being emotional, being sensitive, etc. Instead, a man's cry becomes a meme which ultimately shows that it is just a joke to our society. According to me, Our society has created a different standard of living for both men and women wherein women are restricted physically for e.g., restrictions on their clothes, public behaviour, etc. and men are restricted mentally where they cannot cry because then they will be compared to girls.
I have a friend who has 2 personalities: Diplomatic and Emotional. For him to show his emotional side, he needs to get a hard drink. My question is why does he have to behave practically, diplomatic always even when there are things hurting him inside, where he wants to cry and make himself feel better but he cannot. Why always he has to pretend things? And this is the case with most of the men. They just have to pretend that everything is alright.
There was a family who lost his 1-year-old son, all the women in the family were crying their hearts out but when I saw his father, he was just standing and weeping, tears were rolling down, and the moment his family started with the last rites of that baby, his father couldn't control himself and sat down shouting out of pain and there were people holding him and saying "control yourself if you break who will handle the family" Wasn't he allowed to cry as much as he wants over his son's death. Who are we supposed to blame this for? Our Society for creating such limitations for men or Men themselves for always trying to hide their emotions because of our Society.
I think the moment we as a part of our society start to understand, count and value each and every emotion of men like we do for women, we will get to see a different personality coming out of all men. They should be given more comfort where they feel to express themselves, where they are not only bound to fulfill the materialistic needs of the family. Let's understand the true sense of Gender equality and treat each emotion, feelings as important as we do to women.
A SMALL UNDERSTANDING CAN LEAD TO A BIG CHANGE IN OUR SOCIETY!!!
We need to think about it because it is the thing which is majorly happening in our society which mainly emphasize on gender discrimination. We need to fight against such a nugatory thinking of society and overcome from it.
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