Is Sexism Among Teenagers a Real Thing?
Yes, sexism among teenagers is a real thing. Sexism basically is a theory that discriminates between the two genders and usually also suggests that men are superior to women in case of our society. Teenagers are the strata which a large population of our society belongs to. As they are social beings, children our quick to pick up things from the environment around them and put it into themselves. It first becomes a part of them, and then a natural habit. As they grow up, they grow into it. Hence, sexism as a matter of fact is one of these things that most of the teenagers of our society have grown into.
Mostly teenagers belonging to socially backward families have this thing engulfed into them, which is why they just cannot see girls and boys standing equally in their eyes. In school children, this is very prevalent. Why does a boy think he has the permission to keep his hands on a girl’s waist in the recess time? Why is it so normal to see mostly boys playing around in the playgrounds while girls sit down under the tree and study? This is nothing but a mindset that these children have developed over the years while at home.
Girls usually start to learn household work and help their mothers in it by the age of 13-14. It is because they think they have to do what they have always seen their mothers doing. On the other hand boys can loiter around, have fun with their school buddies, just come home to eat, and it is never a problem because they have seen their fathers do something that they are currently doing. They think it is absolutely fair for them to leave their sisters at home to do all the work, cook for them and keep their food ready by the times they come back home as they have seen their mothers being treated the same way by their fathers. This is the reason why once they grow up, this same sexism that was earlier at a small level, becomes much greater. These same children are the ones keeping their wives from working after marriage, stopping their daughters from being social, avoiding modernized education, etc. Parents must understand how grim and grave a situation this can turn out to be. One must know what sort of an impact one’s actions and words can cause on children’s lives.
A woman myself,
Shubhangini Shaktawat