Expression matters, not gender!

Ekta Bera
3 min readNov 13, 2021

Well, I have a sibling, friends, and a few more men, as well as women, including my father, uncle, teacher, and others. My upbringing and my brother’s childhood have followed a similar pattern up to this point; however, one unusual thing I’ve noticed is the disparity in both’ emotional expressions. I’ve never seen a man cry or show emotion over anything in his life, yet women, including myself, do. They say things like, “Be a man,” “Man doesn’t get hurt,” and other such things. But why do you feel the need to tell a man that every time? Why is it that a man is unable to cry? Why is it that a man cannot be hurt? Is he acting normal or is he actually unaffected? Why is it so difficult for a man to communicate his feelings? Why, above all, don’t we treat men like regular people? It goes without saying that if it’s a human, he’ll have feelings; otherwise, it’s not a human. Who told them they had to act like they are someone they’re not? Then it occurred to me that it was only we who designed it in such a way that if you are a man, you will be unable to cry and will be forced to act aggressively at all times. “Who did it?” is a question with a likely answer in our human history, when females were considered as creatures behind closed doors and males were the ones who had complete control over the home. However, the world has changed, things have changed, and we have also changed. We were previously uneducated, but that has changed with time. We understand why things are the way they are because we have been educated and taught the value of education.

Then I have to reiterate, for the thousandth time, that we create our own demon. Because we have taught our society’s entire male gender to be violent, virtually all crimes, from ordinary disagreements to domestic violence, acid attacks, rape, and murder, are the outcome. He’ll surely erupt at some point because he can’t vent his emotions to anyone, and I’m anticipating crimes because I believe our toughest foe is our fury. Rage is the driving force behind the bulk of crimes. But, now that the time has changed, we must first change within ourselves; otherwise, how can we expect our society to change?

Our mother nature built us similarly, with nine months of gestation and a biological difference in the uterus in females that permits them to produce babies while males do not, and a few exceptions to the other genders as well, but I’m talking about the majority. Emotions are a natural aspect of life for everyone. It’s fine if you’re happy, and it’s equally acceptable if you’re not. Why should we make it difficult to express a natural emotion, such as our mood? Why should our mood be affected by whether we’re talking to a man or a woman? Why should one person have more power than another? Let’s not put up barriers to discussing sentiments and expressing them based on gender, and let’s get rid of our adversary, gender-based wrath, once and for all, because WE CAN.

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Ekta Bera

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