"I was just raised with pressures and expectations. Just generally to "do good." Treating people. Grades. Jobs. Marriage."
Sure, but pretty much everybody deals with these pressures. These aren't gendered pressures in 2022. I'm not saying that we should live without *any kind* of pressure, that's impossible. And as you say, it builds stre…
"I was just raised with pressures and expectations. Just generally to "do good." Treating people. Grades. Jobs. Marriage."
Sure, but pretty much everybody deals with these pressures. These aren't gendered pressures in 2022. I'm not saying that we should live without *any kind* of pressure, that's impossible. And as you say, it builds strength and resilience.
But some pressures, particularly those placed on women, actually make it harder to build that strength and resiilience, because it makes it harder to fully explore and express your autonomy.
"I was just raised with pressures and expectations. Just generally to "do good." Treating people. Grades. Jobs. Marriage."
Sure, but pretty much everybody deals with these pressures. These aren't gendered pressures in 2022. I'm not saying that we should live without *any kind* of pressure, that's impossible. And as you say, it builds strength and resilience.
But some pressures, particularly those placed on women, actually make it harder to build that strength and resiilience, because it makes it harder to fully explore and express your autonomy.
It depends on how You're raised, AFAIK, a lot more than what Your gender is.