oh, and I can give you the mustache I wore last Halloween?

Oh, come on, so what if you didn't

get the role of the princess?

Being a knight is awesome.

At least you're not playing a tree.

Gender role stereotypes are when a person

is expected to act in a certain way based

on society's expectations related to their gender.

Traditional gender roles go back to a time when

there were clear, and at times, unequal rules

about how people were expected to act based on their gender.

People who were born male were expected

to be strong and aggressive, not emotional--

and, of course, to love sports.

People who were born female were expected

to be kind and nurturing, emotional and domestic--

meaning, they were all supposed to be able to cook and clean.

Gender role stereotypes also affect people's understanding

of who is beautiful and who is not.

People still go to great lengths to try and conform

to these unrealistic ideals they see in popular media.

They diet, obsessively exercise, and go through plastic surgery.

Additionally, strict stereotypes about gender police people's

emotions.

Girls are not expected to show anger,

and boys aren't supposed to be empathetic, nurturing,

or vulnerable.

Luckily, as times have changed, so have people's expectations

about gender roles.

More and more people are free to behave

in ways that are true to who they really are.

And that is a good thing.

Until next time.

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