Has conforming to gender norms ever cost you your relationship?
Have you ever felt crippled by the towering expectations of being a ‘provider’ – your worth as a man questioned over how well you can provide for your loved ones?
Are you tired of the burden of performing your manhood or being dismissed as a ‘sissy’ if you didn’t?
It’s difficult to determine how much damage conventional gender roles and stereotypes have done to us as a society.
Besides women, men too are victims of patriarchy, to an extent. They have to continuously perform their masculinity in front of the society, their peers, and their loved ones. Their masculinity is questioned with the slightest aberration from their traditional gender role as stoic, aggressive, unemotional beings.
Though the toughness, the ‘maleness’ has enabled them to ‘show their superiority’ for centuries, it has also victimised many. Sometimes, traditional gender roles have also overpowered their individuality. It has always been the man first, and the person later.
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Video Editors: Ashish MacCune, Rahul Sanpui
Camera: Abhay Sharma
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