It’s just that they are fundamentallysociety encourages/discourages different emotions that they allow to control them
You may have been the boy made fun of for crying, who only got respect by reacting aggressively. Or you’ve been the angry girl who repeatedly got told, “you’re so cute when you’re mad,” but whose bullies went silent once tears started to fall. Either way, the same emotions happen for all of us. It’s just that as we grow up, boys are socially conditioned to respond with anger while girls are socially conditioned to respond with sadness, and we’re each expected to suppress the opposite emotion.
This dichotomy is not fundamental to the sexes in the slightest.
You may have been the boy made fun of for crying, who only got respect by reacting aggressively. Or you’ve been the angry girl who repeatedly got told, “you’re so cute when you’re mad,” but whose bullies went silent once tears started to fall. Either way, the same emotions happen for all of us. It’s just that as we grow up, boys are socially conditioned to respond with anger while girls are socially conditioned to respond with sadness, and we’re each expected to suppress the opposite emotion.
This dichotomy is not fundamental to the sexes in the slightest.