Dismantling Patriarchy

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We have learned in this class of the issues that women go through. Issues in which most women might not have any say on that topic because men are the ones to make the decisions for them. Men who were not born with patriarchy but men that were shown how gender roles played out in society. Men that were shown that being angry and tough were emotions that were made up men. Other emotions such as soft and sweet were only meant for women. For men to act different for what he was shown as a child was wrong and unacceptable. To consider that man as not ‘manly enough’ and even as a man who is not straight. For that reason most men have prevent themselves from coming out of those patriarchal boundaries.

How Some Men might not want to be seen as

Men have to understand that what they were shown as kids and what society and the media define, as ‘a real man’ is wrong. Silence and Fear is what men show when they do not want to be judge by other men or even by women. It is time to show men that it is alright to break through those patriarchal boundaries. Its alright to speak out in front of other men without being judge because other men might be thinking the same way but are just too afraid to show it. If men dismantle these boundaries, we only help women on doing the same. Together we are one and together we are EQUAL.

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