Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules

In a new poll, girls say they feel empowered, except when it comes to being judged on how they look. Boys still feel they have to be strong, athletic and stoic.
Claire Cain Miller

By Claire Cain Miller

Girls have been told they can be anything they want to be, and it shows. They are seizing opportunities closed to previous generations — in science, math, sports and leadership.

But they’re also getting another message: What they look like matters more than any of that.

Boys seem to have been largely left out of the conversation about gender equality. Even as girls’ options have opened up, boys’ lives are still constricted by traditional gender norms: being strong, athletic and stoic.

These are findings from a new nationally representative poll of 1,000 children and adolescents 10 to 19, along with other research on this age group, which is not surveyed often. They show gender attitudes of a generation on the verge of adulthood.
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“Nowadays, if you’re a girl and you act like a boy, it’s considered cool, it’s normal. But if you’re a guy and you act like a girl, it’s different, it’s not as tolerated.” Muyang Yan, 12CreditAmanda Lucier for The New York Times

In the survey, conducted by PerryUndem, a research and polling firm, a majority of girls said sexism was still a problem — yet in many ways, they felt empowered. Girls were slightly more likely than boys to say being a leader was a very important life goal, evidence of a significant shift in gender expectations.

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Read the article, and you'll see just how Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times and the New York Times itself both angle females as the vastly superior gender, and how men and our "toxic masculinity" are holding back women from achieving anything good in their lives.

Soon enough, guys, we'll be having to fight tooth and nail just to keep the clothes on our backs as the new "women" become so incredibly entitled to everything men have. I really don't see America lasting long after Trump is no longer our President. Best prepare for the end of the United States of America in the near future, everyone.