In the cafeteria of P.S.279, I stood in shock as the liquid fluid ran from the top of my head seeping down my freshly ironed shirt and down to the sole's of my shoes. At that moment, I realized that I was standing in a puddle of my own chocolate milk. "Haha" she laughed, but I did not get the joke. I began to call for the teacher and she, barely four feet, grabbed my arm and said "If you snitch I'm gonna say you called me a bitch." That sentence alone would be used to justify her actions. Suddenly I became scared because I knew and she knew the teacher would believe her. Throughout my childhood, I have been pressured with the notion that as a male I should not hit a female, and I have come to realization that this double standard influenced by society.
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Double standards being a principle that is unfairly enforced in different ways to different people or groups.When I was five years old, things were much easier because I knew nothing and questioned nothing. I just accepting everything as fact. Me a young black BOY who often like playing house with the girls rather than wrestling with the other boys, I was bullied for that. The boys would pick on me calling me names such as"wuss" "mama's boy" and "girly boy" but all that accept the last one didn't faze me. The name "girly boy" fazed me because I did not like that they used girls as an insult. I felt that boys and girls were equal. In fact some the girls in my class was stronger than the boys. Mike, a friend of mine at the time, got beaten up by girl fairly shorter than him. But his excuse was "I can't hit a girl" so he so-called did not lose. So the punch and kick he threw did not happen? I'm blind? As I grew older that phrase began to hit me at every corner of my life leading towards the moment that brought me
Double standards being a principle that is unfairly enforced in different ways to different people or groups.When I was five years old, things were much easier because I knew nothing and questioned nothing. I just accepting everything as fact. Me a young black BOY who often like playing house with the girls rather than wrestling with the other boys, I was bullied for that. The boys would pick on me calling me names such as"wuss" "mama's boy" and "girly boy" but all that accept the last one didn't faze me. The name "girly boy" fazed me because I did not like that they used girls as an insult. I felt that boys and girls were equal. In fact some the girls in my class was stronger than the boys. Mike, a friend of mine at the time, got beaten up by girl fairly shorter than him. But his excuse was "I can't hit a girl" so he so-called did not lose. So the punch and kick he threw did not happen? I'm blind? As I grew older that phrase began to hit me at every corner of my life leading towards the moment that brought me