Gender Roles

Gender roles are the roles that people play in society that relate to what gender said person is. Women/girls/females tend to be associated with femininity and roles such as mother/sister/daughter/wife/aunt/niece/princess/ms/miss/girlfriend/etc. Men/boys/males tend to be associated with masculinity and roles such as father/brother/son/husband/uncle/boyfriend/prince/nephew/mr/mister/etc. Certain job titles will denote what gender role the individual is meant to be filling (ex. actor/actress).

Not everyone ends up filling the roles that are intitially expected of them. Binary transgender people tend to simply swap to the opposite set of expectations and titles. Nonbinary people tend to seek out alterative terminology such as enban/enby/mx/ren/mix/andor/enfriend/prin/nibling/etc

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