Gender is not defined. There is
no inherent thing like girly behaviour and boyish behaviour. The whole thing is
socially constructed. An individual react to different situations differently
depending on his or her socio-economic cultural background. My parents kept on
telling me, "girls don't cry" from my childhood. So I never learnt to
cry during a crisis. My friend finds that unnatural for a girl. Well that's how
I was brought up. This socially defined paradigms girl/boy behaviour is fuzzy
and interchangeable.
Gender is not defined. There is
no inherent thing like girly behaviour and boyish behaviour. The whole thing is
socially constructed. An individual react to different situations differently
depending on his or her socio-economic cultural background. My parents kept on
telling me, "girls don't cry" from my childhood. So I never learnt to
cry during a crisis. My friend finds that unnatural for a girl. Well that's how
I was brought up. This socially defined paradigms girl/boy behaviour is fuzzy
and interchangeable.
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