Essay On Gender Stereotypes

People have contributed to gender stereotypes by refusing to the chain. Cooking is now only women’s job, having makeup on is the only way to be classified as beautiful, and lastly; to be a man, you must act manly. Gender stereotypes have been obscured by today’s society through all forms; media, actions, rules, and obligations set by certain communities. Throughout the last few decades women have been portrayed as the only one’s who should be in the kitchen. Billboards, movies, articles in magazines, you would always find something of a women being in the kitchen. Women would always stay home while the men would be off doing their jobs because they felt as if women couldn’t do the things that men could do. Cooking is a life skill, not a gender bias. When you live on your own, a woman is going to be cooking for you. You have to learn yourself because it is a part of the beginning of a life on your own. Being beautiful nowadays in the eye’s of society is quite disgusting. Women are shown on tv's, magazines, and other
Heaven forbid you like the colour pink or a little in touch with their feminine side. Men can’t cry without being classified as weak, or unfit. Yet, men that have the tendency to do that, are more understanding. Men can’t like things that a woman could like because it’s “unheard” of. If a man were to cry or walk a small dog, other’s might put him down because it’s not very manly to cry, or manly to walk a little chihuahua. Gender stereotypes need to be stomped out and vanish. Everyone is who they are for a reason, and that’s because no one else is like you. But today, everyone goes with what’s in through the media. Being thin, having a lot of makeup caked on and doing your hair all the time, and men be super manly on tv/commercials. Cooking, beauty, and masculinity are three of most likely hundreds of more stereotypes that have been addressed in not just my paper, but