Emotions Through Culture And Gender

This starts in childhood when false masculinity is induced by a parent, mentor or neighbor. In a number of social situations, a boy is continuously taught that emotions are not a man’s zone. A strong association of emotions and femininity is imposed on a boy when someone says that crying makes him look like a girl. As a result, a low level of emotional intelligence is one of male typical features by their teens. This means that the skill of being aware of their own feelings is underdeveloped with most men. The greatest emotional outburst is usually about anger because it is associated with “macho” type. This is why it is so typical when a man cannot help feeling angry even in situations when he should normally feel another emotion like sorrow or offence. A psychologist says that many men are “trapped in the

Second, the daily activities of women report that they have more intense experience of emotions than men, more intense expression and comfort to seek out emotional experiences. Women also have greater emotional response, overall warmth, emotional expressiveness and concern for others, than men. Researchers also report that anger is found more in men than women (Costandi, 2013). Women have more intense style of emotional response than men, which would be expected to emerge in both positive and negative domains. In fact, emotional experience stems from the roles men and women fill in our society. Women are considered emotionally expressive and are more sensitive to others’ needs while men are less emotionally responsive (Costandi, 2013). Women and men’s personal history of enacting social roles effect skills and attitudes. Prior experiences build different emotional skills and attitudes, in both and women equally.

Boys and girls are completely different and emotional literacy shows that girls will express their feelings in some shape or form but boys won’t even give a facial expression or any emotion to show how they feel. Many parents instill into boys that they must be tough, heartless and trust no one. Raising Cain states that boys cry more as babies but as boys get older they express less emotion. (pdf)

In a place called Earth, there are many types of genders. As we hear the word “gender”, males and females are typically the words that pop up in our head. With that being said, there are social norms of how males and females should be raised in a specific way. The males are raised to be aggressive and physically fit. While females are passive and submissive. As the stereotypes of gender continues to grow, it slowly damages the people that do not fit in society's point of view. With that discouragement constantly following us everywhere, many of us find ways to fit in society’s expectations. In this case, being born as a male and not fitting or reinforcing in the stereotype has changed me dramatically. The pressure of not fitting in or reinforcing made me change my physical look, dressing semi-formal, challenging the stereotype of how males should be aggressive and challenging the stereotype of having emotions.

To begin with, people in the modern world believe that health is of greater importance than people’s opinions. Humans feel emotion, so why should it be different for men? Showing sensitivity shows that you care, and caring is not a bad thing. All the research shows that men are more likely to commit suicide if they keep their emotions bottled up. Evidence show, that suicide among young men is higher

Women constantly have to consider if an emotion is too intense to express, or if they might be upsetting someone because they're not expressing enough. This means that women focus on how their emotions may affect others, but not how they affect themselves. Lacking this personal insight stunts emotional growth. One of the key parts of being an emotionally mature adult is being able to appropriately assess, express, and cope with a range of emotions. Women often aren’t taught how.

Now, this is a sad truth that men aren’t always the best, or as good as women when it comes to expressing emotions. It’s not that they don’t feel any pain or happiness, the hidden truth is they don’t show what they are feeling.

Emotions are, “a complex psychological state that involves a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioral or expressive response” (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2014, p. 338). There are six basic emotions, which are fear, disgust, surprise, happiness, anger, and sadness. The roles of emotions for females are they are expected to express emotions such as fear, sadness, and

From what I understand, men are considered to be emotionless beings. That is their major stereotype, since being emotionless would make them stronger, and more efficient. None of them are naturally supposed to feel emotions, based on what society says about them. Boys don’t cry, as the saying goes. Now that’s obviously a lie. Men do feel emotions. They feel emotions just like girls do, but they don’t show them as often, because they would

Men have a resistance to crying. Many men do not cry because of their gender role as being masculine. Although science insist that crying is natural, culture sends a message that men who are strong and masculine do not cry (Santiago-Menendez and Campbell, 2013). Growing up many of my guy friends always told me that crying was for sissies, because that is what they were told by their parents or family. Sissies is known to be a name that someone gives to a boy who showed his emotions by crying or having a female emotional trait. This is one reason why many men resists the urge to cry. But it is viewed as being more justified if a man who cries, cries uncontrollable or severe. According to Mahal Santiago-Menendez and Anne Campbell (2013), most

Crying, getting emotional, expressing hurt – these displays are forbidden for boys. Boys must be the strong ones, and girls must be the weak ones. If traditional gender roles are to be believed, girls can display these emotions because they simply do not possess the self-control that is required to hold them back. Children learn to exhibit the emotions that are acceptable for their gender from the beginning of childhood; it is made clear to them the role that men and women play in society, and the role that they each must fill. However, the repression of certain emotions in children based on gender can be detrimental to a child’s emotional health and development, because doing so does not allow

When the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011 rocked New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C., the word “tragedy” was used on a grandiose level around the world. For the people who lived close enough to experience the events first-hand, they may not have even called it a tragedy; perhaps they called it a misfortune, retaliation, lack of a strong government, unreal, or maybe even rebirth. In the coming years after the attacks, everything between standing united as a nation to declaring a war had flourished; but how has that left us - the land that has no distinct ethnicity - feel about each other? Why is it that fear is usually missing in the affective mnemonics of memorial sites, which, after all, are signifiers of some of the

It is important to take into account the role of gender when considering emotional reactivity. There are many stereotypes surrounding males and females and emotional reactions, with the long standing idea being that women are perhaps more emotional than men, or have stronger reactions to positive or upsetting scenarios, while men would have stronger reactions to anger evoking emotions. In recent years, research has sought to challenge these stereotypes. Hess et al (2000) assessed emotional expressiveness in males and females across hypothetical situations. Participants were asked how they believed men and women would react in said hypothetical situation, followed by being asked how they themselves would react in the same event. Surprisingly,

Over the past few decades, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) industry has dramatically increased (Kim et al, 2008; Lim et al., 2010; Damon et al, 2009; Andrew et al, 2009; Kwak, & McDaniel, 2013). The sport exceeded boxing and wrestling as the preferred combat sport among young people (Lafayette & Hibbered, 2006). The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is the most popular MMA-promotion company in the MMA industry, has successfully arrived at media-consumption by the pay-per view and being shown in the prime time on TV. It also has expended their

Evolutions in scientific thought have often contributed to overhauls of the human perception and distinction between gender and culture. Consequently, scientific revolutions have also triggered sociopolitical movements, which have had negative and positive connotations on culture and society. This overhaul in scientific thought began in the 19th century with naturalist Charles Darwin and his theory of Darwinism. Darwinism states that animal species continually evolve through the complex processes of natural selection and those most “fit” learn to adapt and survive to their particular environment (darwin-online.org, 2008).