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Cry like a Boy: because being tough all the time hurts
16/02/2021By
Euronews
From Burundi to Senegal, from Liberia to Lesotho, travel with us across Africa to discover the stories of men buckling under the pressure to conform to traditional male gender roles, and meet those who are defying centuries of stereotypes.
Don’t show your emotions, be strong, be the breadwinner, don’t let a woman tell you what to do, be aggressive, don’t express your fears: these phrases are drummed into many men’s heads from childhood, telling them how to behave like “real men”
The problem with these attitudes is that they do not only harm women, but also men themselves, as they suffer from their efforts to “man up” and feel embarrassed when they are not able to fit this stereotype.
Gloria Capitan lay slumped in a plastic chair, blood dripping down her front. Three bullets had just pierced her neck and jawline, fired by two unidentified men who sped off on a motorcycle. Capitan, a grandmother to 18 children, was the leader of the
She was killed for her environmental activism.
Capitan’s assassination is detailed in a recent report, which finds that female environmental defenders, despite their varied experiences racially and economically, are universally threatened because of their gender.
Dalena Tran, author of the
Gendered Geographies of Violence report, explains the link between patriarchal violence and environmental activism. “Corporations in the pursuit of profit are not taking into account people s lives, whether that s in the United States, or South Africa. This is exacerbated in countries where this is a gender division of labour.”