Deconstructing Masculinity

Perhaps, to start deconstructing and challenging our perceptions of masculinity, we should begin by examining gender. Do you agree?

🌈Too often, society has resorted to reductive, incomplete classifications. But we now know that “there are many different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender-neutral, non-binary, agender” and so on (Teen Talk).

🌈As developmental psychologist Niobe Way explains: “we’ve taken basic human capacities which is to think and to feel, and we’ve given them a gender, and we’ve made thinking into a masculine thing and feeling into a feminine thing—which doesn't make any sense because all humans think and feel.”

We don’t have to conform to stale, outdated ideas of masculinity. Whether you were born male or not, gender and its archetypes are a social construction that can change with time and effort.

Read What’s the Difference Between Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation?

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