How different are men and women, really? 1st

First Section:

In the Eastern cultures and especially Asia, families possess a concept of patriarchal, viewing the male a superior of the female. While boys are presented with abundant resources and attention the second they are born, girls are rather neglected and ignored. This phenomenon comes from the stereotype that men are stronger than women. Therefore, the male is to become the support of his own family, and future hope of his blood. However, aside from physical appearances, men aren’t of much distinctions to women. It’s the gender cultivation later on that’s responsible for the differences we see in men and women these days.

Since we’re young as kids, we’re restricted and jacketed with characteristics and images of what the society delineates as feminine or masculine. These “gender roles” determine what a real man and real woman looks like, and they are going to have much impact on the growth of youngsters. For example, if it’s a baby boy, the color of most his toys may be blue, and pink for a little girl; toy stores like Toys R US have different sections for babies of each sex, airplanes and cars for the boys and Barbie dolls for the girls. These gender stereotypes and doings help make the social order “right”, and lead the boys and girls into their future roles that fit the public’s impression. But is this the right thing to do? By forbidding the boys to play with dolls and forcing the baby girls to like the color pink and red? 

Since the phase of children education is the beginning of gender cultivation, which determines what the kids become in the future, I think it’s also an important step that’s worth discussing about whether it’s really right to separate these two sexes into what we think as masculine and feminine, with only the society’s stereotype as a reference.