The development of the Make Believe game leads boys to dress up, and does this mean that masculinity studies is inherently sexist? From ages 2 to 7, many children play pretend, a type of play in which children act out everyday, imaginary activities: such as pretending to be a doctor to help sick patients, playing house, or dressing up. The benefits of pretend play are: it helps the child reflect thinking, helps control behavior, and helps the child acquire social, language and literacy skills. From recent videos masculinity is inherently sexist, because a child knows which gender role does what. For example, the child knows which gender role goes to work and which gender role stays at home to cook, clean and take care of the children. Fake theatrical performances lead to cross-dressing, and cross-dressing leads to being insulted, misunderstood, and suicide. In America, your gender is based on stereotypes, roles and intensification, that is, stereotypes of attitudes and behavior movements towards a more traditional movement. gender identity. In a matter of nature and nurture, your gender is based on what you should learn from your parents, school, and what the outside world teaches you. Men are supposed to have masculine traits, such as being strong, aggressive, tough, and unemotional, and women are supposed to have feminine traits, such as being emotional, sensitive, caring, and weak. In many studies of masculinity and femininity, males are said to be generally masculine and women are generally feminine, and both men and women are assumed to have a gender role. A gender role is a “theoretical construct in the social sciences and humanities that refers to a set of social and behavioral behaviors n...... middle of paper ...... to commit suicide. Bobby's mother thought he could be cured and when she told him she didn't want a gay son he committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. As a final point, masculinity and femininity are seen as what the world sees you as. For example, women should be feminine and men should be masculine, but if a man is feminine and a woman is masculine, then they are judged. When masculine, a man is supposed to be strong and non-emotional, he should not have any feminine appearance otherwise he would be called homophobic. Growing up, many parents don't want their sons to play with dolls but let their daughters play with cars or fire trucks. Parents should let their children explore and not judge them. In any case, being too masculine or too feminine leads to being insulted, misunderstood and to suicide.