How Can We Practice Gender Biasing When We Talk About Gender Biasing ?
How men suffer from traumas once they start talking
Bassant Elfaramawy
If you think that it’s an article about women rights just because we mentioned gender biasing on the title, it may not be your place that time. Articles and trends always stress on women biasing issues whether in advertising, social media campaigns, or even the normal kind of posts. However, a wave of real triggering male issues has been hitting us since a week for now. It’s not our everyday routine to narrate a story about men’s traumas. Hence, what if we do this time?
Few days ago, a tweet has been shared virally on Twitter and Facebook for a girl who claims that her boyfriend's weakness moments, when he reveals everything to her shamelessly, are just a priceless blessing for her. While reading this, you may think that it is sweet and tinder and it really is in the normal cases of course; However, you may change your mind and have a bunch of doubts once you read the retweets of men who narrate their experience in revealing their dark sides with their beloved ones.
The retweets were 100% negative and full of regretting over making that move. They talked about how they feel when remembering that their greatest traumas turned out to be their girls’ final turn off. They talked about how caged their feelings are and how they always have to be one-way strong and powerful with their partners.
Now, if you are a girl, just imagine yourself with no right to cry over the smallest things; imagine you don’t have the right to open up to someone about your weaknesses and the bad situations you face every day. Men in our society don’t have the right to cry or speak weakly with their male best friends because by a way or another they will end up making fun of them, and they don’t have the safe chance to cry with their life partners due to the ignorant mind set of “a man should always be a man with his girl no matter how he feels.”
We are talking about women issues in our society every day because they are too much and really tough to be healed easily. Parallelly, do you remember the last time you heard about men’s traumas and the restrictions practiced against them in society? Perhaps you will not remember anything at all, because we, the Egyptian society, “is not ready to see a man crying” as one man said in his retweet.
Eventually, men have issues too. Maybe they are not as obvious as women’s or even as much as them, but at the end they have that burden which makes people want to yell and cry. Always remember that!
