Blog Post #5

 In "Men Have No Friends and Women Bare The Burden" I came to the realization about a few things. Through years of stereotyping and everything we see in society men and women are clearly taught to act a specific way. Men are supposed to hide and cover their emotions and women are allowed to express their sensitivity. This leads to built up frustration and anger for males. This also leads to the idea that men are only allowed to turn to women for emotional support and are expected to put off a tough persona in front of their peers. "Men are taught that feelings are a female thing" stood out to me because of how true this is. Men are often looked at as weak if they are seen crying or expressing other emotions. This is toxic masculinity that can defer men from forming friendships with other males. Personally, I think this is unfair because at the end of the day we are all humans with the same feelings, not matter the gender. In the next article, "She Giggles, He Gallops" I also realized a few things that I have never really thought about before. The use of specific words geared towards a gender is something that happens in every film dialogue. There is a long list of words and it is very clear as to which words are more masculine or more feminine. Something that shocked me is that 85% of film writers in Hollywood are men and only 15% are women. Maybe if female writers increased we would have more women playing roles that are typically played by men, such as spies and things of that sort.