Traditional Gender Roles In Society

Traditional gender roles have existed for many centuries. Throughout the history of humanity among various cultures and eras, there are pieces of evidence and traces of unfair treatment of women. Women have a role of a wife waiting for her husband to return from the war, a mother of the conquering hero or a great scientist, or a daughter who is destined to marry the prince of another country in order to consolidate the alliance between the two countries. Life of a woman was determined by the man, whether it be her father, husband or son. It is not surprising that such a position in society led women to fight. Starting with the suffragettes and finishing with the third wave, feminism has become an integral part of the society. Women opened …show more content…
Nurturing a child is just as important as building bridges and driving an engine. Moreover, nurturing is what can help create a better society where everyone is equal for if a nurturer teaches a child compassion, love, and empathy, such child, who will eventually become an adult, can spread the lessons of sympathy among other members of the society and teach their own children the same lessons. The unfortunate truth is that, indeed, many men are brought up to be aggressive and consider themselves superior to women. They are less tied to the domestic matters and their families than women; however, I think it is wrong and man and women must cooperate and mutually depend on each other. Victor’s ego brought his miseries on him as he became less and less involved in his family and more and more in his harmful researches. Then, he was not able to nurture his creation not only right but at all. The only things that the creature knew were violence and rejection; therefore, he became a monster for he was treated like one. Victor has failed his creation, his child. However, there is a possibility that a compassionate woman might have changed the course of this story. If she were to give the creature a loving home and protection, he would have been nurtured a …show more content…
However, it can be argued that gender roles and stereotypes were socially constructed and exist up to today because it is not easy to escape centuries of false beliefs in a matter of a hundred years. Jean Baudrillard says, “It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere. [Gender stereotypes are a simulacrum because their existence fully depends on whether or not people believe in their existence. This simulacrum is so deeply ingrained in the society that it come to represent the actual reality for people of all genders]” (2-3). Therefore, for a person to stop acting referring to their gender roles is to accept that they are, in fact, socially constructed hyperreality. Naturally, it can be extremely hard to do considering that a person was brought up with such values and behaved in accordance to them. It requires some knowledge and willingness to accept gender stereotypes as a