Men facing gender bias
There have been so many times I have seen a man wanting to weep But instead Beat his heart until it was unconscious. -Nayyriah Waheed. What patriarchy does to a man? While most people tend to believe that patriarchy gives a man power over others and to some extent it does, but patriarchy snatches away the power that a man has over himself. While gender bias wants to paint women as weak, it also slather men with a façade of being tough. Men are told “ not to cry and show emotions” lest they become weak. They are told that “men don’t fail”. They are drowned in responsibilities so dense that they lose themselves in it. Over time, they become so one with the idea of being the superior and stronger gender that they repress their emotions and deal with it by falling into the clutches of substance abuse and aggression. Men face issues like that of sexual harassment, domestic violence and unjust treatment too but because they supposedly are the stronger gender and will lose their masculinity...