Personal Narrative: Why Men Don T Cry

“Don't Cry,boys men don’t cry”

Guys are told what they can and cannot do at birth in my family. That men can’t cook,clean, or even dance. That when I clean around my house, my mom tries to nudge me into stopping. My mom refuses to let me cook, I’m surprised. Most of all my mother thinks guys shouldn’t dance.

Guys are suppose to work and come home. I extremely disagree with that. I want to do more than just “work”. I want to party with my friends,or hang out with them somewhere. I want to have fun in my life.I don’t want to spend my life only working.

The biggest thing I hate is that my mom HATES it when I’m with a girl. My mom automatically assumes I’m dating a girl,when we’re only friends! She gets worried about me because of this. I Hate this aspect the most because it limits what I can do.
While My Mother gave birth to me, I’m not going to let her dictate what my life will end up. There are stereotypes for every gender, some more than others. For me I could understand the stereotypes that other Muslims have gone through. When I went anyone with my mother, people judged her for wearing a salwar kameez. Even though she didn’t wear a burka, she wore something that meant she was muslim. To make matters worse, she isn’t fluent in English. My mother is faced with all kinds of stereotypes, like she can’t drive, and all she does is clean.

For me this is no song that made an impact on me and my gender roles. However there are songs out there that I realise what they’ve done. The “Stereotype song” is one of those videos. “I love the Middle East, but how do they handle rockin’ burkas while they’re riding camels.” While the lyrics aren’t offensive, then people start making assumptions of the people who live there. They start to think everyone there wears burkas, and that everyone rides camels. People then start rumors on just assumptions and not