While it’s acknowledged that growing up as a woman can have its own problems, there’s never as much conversation around the struggles facing little boys.
Celebrating International Men’s Day, one school conducted an experiment asking a group of nine year old boys what they didn’t like about being a boy.
The results are actually quite sad.
Amongst the answers included were ‘supposed to play football’, ‘not supposed to cry’ and ‘having a automatic bad reputation’.
As one tweet said, ‘Masculinity is toxic’:
Masculinity is toxic: a group of 9 year olds list the things they don’t like about being a boy #InternationalMensDay pic.twitter.com/WmUcUCY25J
— Glen Coco (@MrPooni) November 19, 2014
