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We tend to expect that women are emotional while men are unemotional. It’s not true, of course—there are many instances when a man may be emotional.

unemotional. It’s not true, of course—no doubt you can think of many instances where you saw a man be passionate or a woman be reserved. But as you grow up in a society, you pick up signals about what gender “means”—how someone of the male gender is “supposed to” dress, behave, and so on, and how that differs from how someone of the female gender is “supposed to” dress and behave. Academics often say that gender is a “construct,” by which they mean that our understanding of gender is not

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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