Society is what shapes us all. Whether you are male or female, you are influenced by other people everyday. The book by Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice, she explains ways women and men are both shaped by society differently. When a child goes to school, all they are thinking about is whether or not the other children like him or not. This is where males and females branch off. Males are afraid of getting caught up in a relationship and ending up trapped. A lot of males feel that they can't get their feeling out comfortably which would ultimately get them stuck in a relationship they wouldn't want to be in. Females are afraid of not getting into relationships. They feel they have to find a relationship or else others will not accept them. When asked to describe themselves, men go into the specifics and give details about where they live and how old they are. Women, on the other hand, describe their personalities and people they have relationships with.
             "If aggression is conceived as a response to the perception of danger, the findings of the images of violence study suggest that men and women may perceive danger in different social situations and construe danger in different ways-men seeing danger more often in close personal affiliation than in achievement and construing danger to arise from intimacy, women perceiving danger in impersonal achievement situations and construing danger to result from competitive success. The danger men describe in their stories of intimacy is a danger of entrapment or betrayal, being caught in a smothering relationship or humiliated by rejection and deceit. In contrast, the danger women portray in their tales of achievement is a danger of isolation, a fear that in standing out or being set apart by success, they will be left alone."
             This quote says that males are afraid of intimacy because they feel that is where danger comes from. If they get too intimate with someone they mi...