Take away Your Iron Mask, Men

             Peculiar as it was for centuries that men are cast as tough, powerful and endurant while women are to be protected and be sympathized. Men were thought as if they could work like a machine that would never be suffered emotionally. A man would be thought of powerless and timid if he yearned for emotion relieves, which were reserved for his opposite sex only. Such erroneous portray of male gender who are asked without a minute of taking off to be tough isolates them from necessary assistance when failures or losses strike them; many suffers tremendously.
             Starting from their childhood, boys are taught to be tough enough to bear their own sufferings. Since young age, parents already urged their little sons to get up on their own once fallen down. Fellows would laugh at boys who spoke of their internal feelings. As boys grew up, they learnt to be embarrassed if they needed to share their sufferings with others if frustration came ahead. Projections of how men should act against difficulties eventually built up a weird habit on men who always keep any upsets away from confiding these.
             As criticized by Scott Sanders¡ The Men We Carry in Our Minds, some women naively pictured that men ¡§kept all the joys and privileges of the earth for themselves¡ (182) . Although this represented only opinion of a few women, it inevitably reflected how men¡s miseries are being diminished in our society. That little concern focuses on the desperation and frustration men come across when expected goals failed to be accomplished forces men to heal over on their own efforts. Unlike women, while the same situation happens, who have the real privileges to receive compassion and at least the right to confide their hardship without worries of being ashamed, men are destined to lose this right.
             Men resist talking their hardship and upsets not only from their colleagues or acquaintances, family members are also blacklisted from knowing that. One
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