This society has led us to believe that boys are bound to fall into one category; that the way they are meant to be is fixed. And of course, there are certain rules they are obliged to follow. Boys are not supposed to be sweet, they must be aggressive. Boys are supposed to be emotionally and physically strong, and they better not dare be any less. They are not supposed to show emotions, nor that they care. They better stick to the colors assigned to them.
Boys are meant to be angry. Not the kind of anger women nowadays are using to make themselves heard and reclaim their rights, but rather the type of anger that shuts other people down; the anger that murders for the sake of supremacy. And all this for what? Why is it fair to impose a whole persona to boys as young as one day old?
Since day one little boys fall into this ideology that "boys will be boys" and that everything they do might be excused with that. Boys cannot even aim to be any less than what the status quo has dictated for them. If a child cries he is immediately accused of not being man enough; if he is peaceful and selfless he is a shame to his kind.
I hate that men are not allowed or entitled to their emotions, it is not fair! Let's just let boys be whatever they want to be; let them boys be HUMAN first.
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