When female cries, someone tries to help. Its acceptable in society as "call for help". But for men its unacceptable. Even small crying boys are mocked sometimes by other kids. BTW I wonder why those "equalizers" dont fight for equality in such cases…
Actually they DO ... there are many who advocate for more men to be true to themselves, and to own their emotions. But of course there are those who will mock such shows of emotion - any time there is change there is resistance. The more that parents teach kids that it isn't 'wrong' for boys to like pink things or dolls or for girls to like contact sports or video games and so on ... the more it will become normalized in culture and acceptable.
But things take time, and inbred bias we grew up with is hard to remove even if we want to - and harder to remove it from those who see such changes as a threat or otherwise negative. But even in most of those cases I don't think people are really compelled by some grand sense of cataclysmic outrage that might be suggested on some corners of the internet.
I think that most people here are pretty reasonable, and honestly we all have fairly limited scope of influence ... we do what we can to hopefully make the world a better place for everyone.
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