Stereotypes Of Masculine And Women

Although different societies have various definition about masculine and feminine, they all put certain stereotypes on both male and female. In the human society we currently live in, masculine is described as athletic, encyclopedic, and bravery, whereas women is portrayed in the exact opposite way: instead of being praised by intelligence, women are valued primarily because they pleased to men or their capability of bearing children. No matter how hard women tried to prove themselves in front of men – by showing themselves strong and sinewy on their own definition – they would be ignored whatsoever: in the view of masculine, women are always the ones who are somehow inferior than men.

The human society conventionally view masculine as strong, undefeated, mighty and intelligent. In the poem written by Rudyard Kipling, “If”, almost all the virtues a “proper” male should own are listed. For him, a boy can be a fully grown-up male if he can keep sanity and humble, believe in himself, been neutral about all subjects. These admirable quality should be owned by all human beings, instead in this poem, the author own concentrated on male. For …show more content…
Additionally, Mary Wollstonecraft as one early writer who fight for women’s rights mentioned in her article that the reason why men always put themselves in the position as a leader because they thought women were not as intelligent as they did; moreover, men also argued that women did not have the value to be educated because of their frivolous and mincemeat. Also, women appeal to men is for protection. Furthermore, like Maya Angelous stated in her article, “Phenomenal Woman”, that even males feel attractive to female and curious about female as an opposite-sex, they can never truly understand female’s mind or women as a