Roles Can Actually Be Harmful To Their Health By Tara Culp-Ressler

The article Forcing Kids To Stick To Gender Roles Can Actually Be Harmful To Their Health, by Tara Culp-Ressler talks about the issue of gender roles and the effect in health of adolescence. Ressler says that raising children in societies that have strict gender roles can affect their physical and mental health. Researcher Maria de Mar Pereira, concluded her “this constant effort to manage one’s everyday life in line with gender norms produces significant anxiety, insecurity, stress and low self-esteem for both boys and girls, and both for ‘popular’ young people and those who have lower status in school.” During Pereira research, she observed that boys and girls control their behavior to follow the gender norm. Girl participants would avoid
by Crispin Sartwell begins with questioning the improvement of individuals from those who are dishonest, self-interested, greedy, etc. Startwell uses references from other philosophers to conclude the relationship of each philosopher. James Russell Lowell, said, “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect on humanity. Man is … not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6,000 years ago.” Plans of self-improvement have resulted in progress. However, it has led to oppression, wars, and genocide. Kurzweil believes that technology has descended our improvement of self and can cause the planet’s total destruction. Mark Twain believes that dishonesty, evil, and envy only occurs with human beings and wherever we are. Twain also believes that individuals cannot see progress. Edgar Allen Poe story “The Imp of the Perverse” shows another reason to why it is difficult for humans to improve: “We act, for the reason that we should not,” the narrator declares. This is one reason that human action tends to undermine itself; our desires are contradictory. “The Imp of the Perverse” still holds a little hope for humankind. Startwell includes detail from the book about a man who murders another man with poison. The murder becomes obsessed about the idea of confesses that he himself confesses to his own act. Confessing you our murder is the right thing to
All relate somehow to one another with the idea of technology and society. The first 2 years of life and is considered to be a critical time for brain development, and most kids are introduced to the television long before they enter school (How TV Affects Your Child). The current generation and the next generation are introduced to modern technology altering decisions. Technology as mentioned before has a negative and positive feedback from the public. Since many children are being exposed to media at a young age, depending what they are being shown can affect health, emotional, and physical conditions. Similar to how people become pro-gay in 2009 when series like Modern Family broadcast. For Americans same-sex couples being shown in tv was a change to recognize the commonalities with their lives. Shows like “Ellen DeGeneres Show”, “Scandal”, “Modern Family”, “Will and Grace”, etc. continue to grow and increase pro-gay communities (Kane Matt). However, there are many downfalls to technology. Technology can ultimately take over happiness, isolate many people, and make people dependent on it. However, technology can improve but damage