Gender Roles and Stereotypes

People have occasionally felt pressure to act or look a certain way based on their gender. This pressure can make people unhappy, if they are being asked to be or act in a way that does not match who they really are. Today people have more freedom than ever to express themselves in ways that feel true to who they are, regardless of their gender. #genderroles #genderidentity
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Translation Credits
StandWeSpeak: Hindi
Daman Education: Persian
Planned Parenthood of Thailand: Thai

[AMZ-072]

[MagnoliaWisteria]

Note: pink used to be a masculine colour because it was more "solid" than blue!

[jihan_]

I love how this included girls AND boys

[DragonKiller-nwju]

As a male myself, I had never understood as to why being emotional is a bad thing.

[eliselighten]

Imagine a situation:
Mother gave birth to a baby, but after giving birth woman died. Who will take care about a baby? Father, of course! Even fathers can take care of babies!

[michtori]

What the video says, it doesn't matter if you wanna have child, cook for them and your husband or if you wanna go to the moon. The important is live your life as you want to! You can cook if you’re a man, and you can play soccer if you’re a woman. Don’t stereotype yourself, and be free.

(I’m a no native-speaker, sorry for bad english tho)

[crab]

Women belong in the kitchen.
Men belong in the kitchen.




The kitchen has food.

[rosalemön]

But, like, the thing is, I am probably quite the stereotypical girl. When I grow up, I actually want to be the wife that stays at home and does the, uh, things housewives/mothers do, you know? I just feel like that's not attractive anymore😂😂

[zivox]

Just be YOURSELF!

You like cooking? Do it!
You like repairing cars? Do it!
You like both of those things? Sure why not!

It's also fine if you enjoy only one of those things. (or neither!)
Do whatever makes you happy and have fun with it!
There shouldn't be any rules in how to be YOU! <3

[unsuspiciouschannel]

my mother relies on gender roles so heavily that she got infuriated after I told her I wanted to have a black bedroom wall, something as smal las that! she told me that “it was too boyish” and that girls aren’t supposed to like colours like that. she said she’d support me in every way possible, yet won’t let me have the freedom to paint my wall a colour or wear certain clothes. now I wonder, how much backlash would I have gotten if I was a boy and said I wanted pink? I bet it would’ve been way worse. one day, if I decide to have kids, I hope that I won’t become deluded enough to think like my parents. it’s not the 1950s anymore.

[_lynxed_]

gender "norms" should not exist. Men can wear dresses, women can propose. So what?

[spacedessertyt]

Girls should be : Barbie Dolls

Boys should be : Ken dolls


I should be : the person to set the dream house on fire

[preciouswilkes]

“Women belong in the kitchen”

Me: I belong on the couch.”

[archoss]

Everyone should be taught how to cook and clean. As a kid everyone I knew was.

[momcompickmeupimscared]

now i can say that is ''descrimination'' in mental health too. like how boys can't have an eating disorder since it's generilized as a ''girl's only disorder''. or when a girl has depression people might think that she's on her period or PMS.

[bnjjj]

The worst part about gender roles and stereotypes is that they allow double standards to get in the way of how others are treated. For the longest time my mother made me do more housework than my brother because I'm a girl. She always asked me to help with the cooking while my brother got to sit on his ass and play video games. I have pestered my mother to no end and demanded that my brother do more housework as I got older, because the unfair treatment was driving me mad. Now my brother does as much housework as I do and I'm happy with that. When will people realize that cooking and cleaning is a *LIFE SKILL* that everyone should know regardless of gender?! It's even worse when girls go to school to pursue a career, only to end up getting married and stuck being a housewife that is never able to pursue their career because they are stuck at home taking care of the kids while their husband works.

[ssncrockett]

You are wrong if you think pink for girls and blue for boys way always a thing since the introduction of gender role stereotypes
Beginning around the year 1889 gender specific colors came around in the first country. At the time, the general rule was "pink for boys, blue for girls" and the reason was "Pink being a more decided and stronger color is more suitable for the boys, while blue which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girls" according to a 1918 article. But that changed only over a period of around, oh, 100 YEARS OR 1 CENTURY! Yes, that is right, it took almost a whole century to change the idea around the world, and still today, it hasn't been fully changed. During the year 1823 the FIRST country has that as it's rule and still has that rule today! But in 1988, the final country changed the rule, as of today, we still don't know if that will change!
Another stereotype is below
Cars and people
Women: BAD AT DRIVING
Men: AMAZING AT IT
People in the kitchen
Women: GREAT CHEFS
Men: FIRE! FIRE! PUT IT

[natalua]

This is great and yeah everyone should be accepted, but you know what we shouldn’t be doing:

Telling people who like things that happen to follow/line up with traditional gender roles that this isn’t what they like, but something society has told them to like?

So many times people tell girls who wear dresses that it’s just the patriarchy’s fault that they like dresses and try to force them to “throw away the gender roles” and force them to do thing/wear things they don’t like.

If a guy likes being tough and manly and stuff, sometimes it’s not toxic masculinity, but an actual person who likes those things.

[Primallunacresenteclipse]

Cooking and cleaning is a basic way to live no matter who you are. It’s fact. But you can do what you want in your relationship.

[janibii_]

What I've noticed these days in the media is that when they are trying to make girls good female role models in movies, they just make them manly. Femininity is also strong. Like Queenie from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was very feminine, but she was also strong and a good rolemodel.

[bobitea]

Hello! It's me again! Everything is better now! My friends accept me. And my Ex-Girlfriend is now my best friend! I'm happy that I took your advice and used it to help me! Thank you very much! So so much!
- Rose/ Heather / Camila