A rigid system of ideas about male and female sooner or later starts to work as a discriminatory mechanism. About this in the St. Petersburg art space mArs at a meeting of the Discussion Club of Daniil Kotsiubinsky “Why is everything wrong?” Asya Novkunskaya, an expert on gender issues, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, an employee of the Faculty of Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, told
“The existence of strict norms and ideas about the “right” men and women, femininity and masculinity, sooner or later leads to stereotyping and begins to work as a discriminatory mechanism. First of all, for those who do not feel comfortable and happy in this framework system, where boys are always defenders, courageous and ambitious, and girls guard the hearth, ”Novkunskaya said.
At a meeting in the art space, she discussed with historian Daniil Kotsyubinsky, who insisted that even in modern society, gender is clearly determined by the biological sex of a person that he receives at birth. The expert noted that it is also influenced by the primary socialization that a child goes through until the age of 15, seeing in front of him models of male and female in the form of parents.
According to him, one way or another, a binary-oppositional perception of the world is inherent in a person, which, among other things, includes an idea of how the average man and woman behave.
“I don’t think that the presence of such ideas somehow excludes “different” people from society,” Kotsiubinsky said.
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Source: Rosbalt
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