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Me: Couple years back I worked at an office and became good friends with the office supervisor (male). I had been working as front office for four months when I was offered the office manager position. I was really excited and took the position. The next day one of the girls I work with ask me if our supervisor was good in bed! I was confused on why she had ask me that but I simply said I wouldn’t know. I found out the rumor was I had slept with my boss and that was why I was offered the manager position. I did not sleep with my boss FYI, but it was that double-bind that because I succeeded to a better position it had to be because I had sex with the boss. It was really hurtful and I felt embarrassed like if I had done something wrong.

Friend: My friend had a double-bind of femininity experience while she was in high school. She was a virgin and was called a stuck-up bitch. Being a teenager and wanting to fit in she decided …show more content…

If he wanted to cry he would, it was alright for him to show and express his emotions. As he grew older and learned from his friends it was not okay to show emotions he had to restrict his emotions. He still hasn’t been able to completely overcome that hegemony for males but has been more emotionally open with his girlfriend.

Friend: My friends said her brother was taught to respect females at all times. As he got older he notice his friends would make fun of him because he was nice to the girls when you weren’t suppose to be. Not wanting his friends to make fun of him he started treating girls like crap - even when he knew it was not right. He felt he had to reinforce that dominance of a male like his friends did. At one point he realize that guys treated his sister that same way he did to other girls. He saw how his sister cried and felt like crap that he decided to stop being a jerk to girls - even if his friends made fun of

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