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crying
feminine
stereotyped
hungrier
noncompetitive
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Ruburt, wanting a certain kind of career, tried to be less feminine. You thought of your father in many ways as feminine—passive, and of your mother—in many ways, now—as aggressive and male, though she was emotional. In any case Ruburt thought of your art as noncompetitive, solitary, intuitive, and opposed to the stereotyped masculine role. So if he gives in to an impulse to cry then he feels he forces you to behave in a stereotyped male way—in a role you have rejected, and rightly so.
He also feels that crying is dependent in a feminine way, and goes against the fact that he has rejected the stereotyped feminine role. With such a small example, however, you see how such roles, even when they are largely denied, have a bearing and limit expression.
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