Essay On Stereotypes Of Women

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It was around the 1890s that things began to change. Girls started going to school and were beginning to be allowed to go outside just for pleasure. It was during world war 2 that women began to work and a couple years later that they were allowed to vote. Can you believe they did not allow women to make decisions on who would take care of the country they lived in just because they were women? The things you can do now and wear now, mom, you would be ridiculed for fifty years ago, maybe even killed. So, please be understanding of the few things that I am going to point out next to you.

The things I believe are fair now, you may not agree with. But please remember that the things you can do now, you would not have been able to do fifty years ago. My beliefs may seem wrong because you didn’t grow up believing in these things, but please really think about them and decide for yourself if these things are really wrong from a logical point of view, and not just a
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Why is the naturally grown hair on my legs disgusting? Isn’t it the same hair that men grow on their legs? Why do I have to shave my armpits? Don’t men have hair on their armpits too? Isn’t that disgusting too?

I believe men should be able to get their eyebrows waxed and wear make-up and still not be gay. I believe that if women are allowed to do that, and are expected to do that, men should be allowed to be able too. Why are women expected to work hard to be attractive, but men can not do the same thing without being viewed at as gay or weird? Do they not look attractive afterwards? Are men not allowed to want to look attractive? Women expect men to shave their beards and cut their hairs, but suddenly waxing their eyebrows or putting make-up is weird?

And I want you to consider a couple things that are happening around the world that showers the injustice between men and

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