Gender Stereotypes In Relationships

Society has a knack for compartmentalizing everything, including perceptions of people. For example, All Asians are smart; all African Americans are all “hood”, and all white people are either rich or “redneck.” Often these stereotypes can have a negative effect SUCH AS racial tensions, but The major stereotype that affects most of modern relationships is the stereotypes between men and women. Women state that “they are always right”, and “All men act like children”, while men state that “Taking care of the household is a woman’s job.” I not only do I want to talk about stereotypes, but I also want to address how these stereotypes are wrong and how they destroy most relationships.
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Now women are moving up through the work force with critical pace. The claim that “a woman’s job is solely to take care of the children”: claims that in the man’s eye, she is inferior to him. In the vital communication between partners, this is very dangerous statement. Similar to a man’s feeling of inferiority, women can grow spiteful. I still remember when I was in high school dating a silly 16 year old boy. Whenever we were in an argument, he would snap and say that I should just “shut up, and take up my job of making sandwiches and feeding kids.” Although he did not mean this literally, it was a jab at my equality in the relationship; a primitive reminder that I would be a “lesser” opinion in the relationship. In reality, I was a vibrant student who had better grades than him, and was even a grade level ahead of him after he failed twice. But because he knew his jab would work, it always affected me terribly. Often I would feel inferior and unworthy of speaking up. Of course, because of this stereotype and maybe some bigoted opinion on his side, we broke up. If the removal of these stereotypes is not addressed, they can heavily undermine any work in a