Реферат: How Does Your Child Act Essay Research

were all young back then. But looking back at this, it?s weird to notice that we always

made fun of the boy who acted like a girl but never did I hear anyone make fun of the girl.

I think that the boys parents were more upset about the little boys playmates than anyone

else. The boys father, my neighbor used to push the boy into doing boy stuff like playing

little league baseball and pop warner football. Whenever the father saw us boys playing

football or basketball on the street, he would literally drag the boy out of the house to

make him play with us. The little boy would be in tears crying but you could still hear his

father encouraging him to play. We all knew that the boy was scared straight by his father

and dared not to disobey his father, but he didn?t want to play. Even the boys mother was

like his father. If other girls came to play with the boy, she would not let him out. So

then a couple of boys used to go and get him out of his house, which his mom agreed to

so he could secretly play with the other girls. Looking back at this makes me think that

those actions by both the girl and the boy didn?t really mean anything because we were

only nine or ten years old.

There are a lot of reasons to why there is a double standard for girls acting like

boys and boys acting like girls. The boys get the hard rough end of the stick. Everyone is

okay with girls acting like tomboys but as soon as a boy acts like a girl, he is considered

to be gay, or it is considered unexceptable behavior. I am one of those people. I don?t

know what it is but as soon as I do see a guy who acts like a girl, I think that he is gay and

I know most people feel the same. I think that this is societies fault. I say this because as

kids everyone is taught to be athletic and play boy things like football, baseball, and

basketball. And it doesn?t matter if girls play these sports because society accept it, there

are women?s basketball leagues and soccer leagues. But nothing is ever considered a girl

sport. The saying, ?It?s a mans world?, has a lot of meaning behind it. I say this because

men are considered superior to women and if people?s daughters act like men there?s not a

problem because you get more respect and more money doing man stuff than you would

get doing women stuff. So the boys that are acting like girls, in their parents mind are

taking a step backward instead of accepting being a man and receiving all the benefits of

being a man. There is the double standard.