The Positive And Negative Effects Of Emotions In Society

As a child, I was constantly told how a boy is not a real boy if he cries or shows excessive emotion. It is considered good to cry if you are a girl because it helps in releasing your emotions. This led to the result of me crying over almost everything, and my brother storing his anger in a non beneficial manner. It is a common belief in society that women are more emotional than men. This is because young children are influenced by the stereotyping present in everyday life and forms such as movies. A study was shown to prove that preschool students always aligned anger with boys, and fear and sadness with girls. (Brody 370) By only allowing women to show emotion, puts a shadow of frailness upon women which allows men to believe that they are

Society is told that women are supposed to be extremely emotional, and should share their emotions with everyone around us. This is mostly a positive thing for women because then women can feel open about talking about their feelings and opinions without feeling judged. In contrast, if men are taught that they should not show much emotion, they begin to bottle up their emotions and become more aggressive. There was a study that displayed how men that were not expressive of their emotions, were more likely to be abusive than man who were expressive with their emotions. (Brody, 388) Considerably, there are men and women in the modern day that do or do not show emotion, no matter what their gender is. Though, the majority of society is convinced by social media and influences around us that the gender emotion inequality should

If women are viewed more emotional than men, than women may be looked down upon in their careers. This is because managers will most likely usually prefer an emotionally stable man working for them, rather than a women they have to be careful talking to. Another problem that arrises is that some women take advantage of the assumption that they are emotional and use it as an excuse to be rude. I believe that men being viewed as non-emotional people is a negative concept as well. Men should be able to cry and show emotion without being viewed as weak. If men cannot show emotion, they eventually become a very angry and aggressive