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Belittle Boy Research Paper

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While growing up it is easy to believe a lot of things but there are somethings that a person has to choose if they want to continue to believe them or not. For instance, I have seen people belittle boys because they cry or feel sad. I have watched the people who I am close to doing this. Those people believe that it is unmanly for a boy to show their emotional side and see it as a flaw. I also used to be one of those people that believed this. I've had a change of heart after we after witnessing how it way of thinking affected others.
The first time I heard my dad say something bad to my brother was after our very first physical fight. My older brother Kenny and I used to always fight over everything most times those fights would end with one of us crying. I pulled his hair and he started crying and I started crying so I wouldn’t get in trouble. My dad was trying to calm us down, but I noticed the difference in the way he did it. He would be gentle when he …show more content…

They were unnecessary for anyone to say those things, especially a parent. Instead of standing up for him I stopped visiting my dad and so did he it caused us to become distant. He wouldn’t tell me certain things because he didn’t want himself to be seen as a weak or emotional person. Before he told me this I thought it was because we fought so much. He went on to tell me that our father was hurting him emotionally when he said things like 'Stop crying like a girl' or when I said that he was acting like girl for crying, it took a toll on him and being thought of as weak by someone he loved wasn't something he wanted to deal with, this made me feel instantly guilty. I had so many questions to ask like why did I think that it was okay to make fun of him while he was hurt and why people only connected crying with girls when it is normal. Those questions were ones that I would have to answer for myself, but I wouldn't be able to provide a good

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