New Expectations In Society

New Expectations Living in his society for eighteen years, I noticed that gender norms have impacted people in many ways. This society expects a lot from us and sometimes the pressure leads people to drastic events at some period of their life. Not only does the society already put a lot on a person's shoulder, but one's culture can be very strict with you. The older generation had to put up with these expectations, but it seems like the current generations are reaching their breaking point and it is time to teach young people how to be accepting and let people be themselves so that in the long run, we wouldn’t have so many social issues. In a speech by Audre Lorde, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”, the author encourages

As much as it annoys me to say, but they are huge conformist within their own community. We are raised one way… women learn how to cook, clean, and take care of the kids while the men just go to work and drink at their free time. Women are not allowed to do what they want, their lives are basically on repeat. In Tannen’s excerpt “His Politeness Is Her Powerlessness”, she explains that men put women in a lower status in our society but we do not make a big deal out of it like men do. She says, “Granted, women have lower status than men in our society. But this is not necessarily why we prefer not to make outright demands.” (Tannen 4). Although the men make it out to seem that they have it the best, it isn’t too easy for the young boys. I have a little brother and I had to raise him up until he turned twelve years old and I also have a father who takes a lot of pride into his culture. My little brother wasn’t the bravest boy in the family, he was mostly a very timid person so that gave my dad a frustrating time. I would witness my father shouting at my brother and telling him hurtful things about not being a man. I could not go one day without hearing, “Be a man cabron!”. I always wondered what it really meant to be a