{"id":389,"date":"2007-10-30T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2007-10-30T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:18:00","slug":"on-gender-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/10\/30\/on-gender-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"On Gender Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Guest Bloggers Cheryl, Emily, and Laura of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalystwomen.org\/\">Catalyst<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gender stereotypes can be quite insidious when it comes to emotional display. A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-The-Crying-Game.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin\">Penn State study featured on last week&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> shows that perceptions of crying vary depending on whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a woman or a man doing the crying.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A moist eye was viewed much more positively than open crying, and males got the most positive responses,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Why are gender stereotypes to blame?  Because gender stereotypes portray women as more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153emotional,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a crying woman is almost expected and \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as such \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not taken seriously.  A crying man, on the other hand, must really have a valid reason to be crying. Or he is viewed as a sensitive person, capable of expressing their emotions in a healthy fashion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is another telling excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Women are not making it up when they say they&#8217;re damned if they do, damned if they don&#8217;t,&#8221; said Stephanie Shields, the psychology professor who conducted the study. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t express any emotion, you&#8217;re seen as not human, like Mr. Spock on &#8216;Star Trek,'&#8221; she said. &#8220;But too much crying, or the wrong kind, and you&#8217;re labeled as overemotional, out of control, and possibly irrational.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  And, unfortunately for women, it doesn&#8217;t take much for women to be labeled as overemotional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Guest Bloggers Cheryl, Emily, and Laura of Catalyst Gender stereotypes can be quite insidious when it comes to emotional display. A recent Penn State study featured on last week&#8217;s New York Times shows that perceptions of crying vary depending on whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a woman or a man doing the crying. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A moist eye was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}