Females Verbal/Visual

Women in society are seen very differently than men. I know that when I talk about women, I am thinking much differently than I am when I think about men. Women are seen as physically fragile and emotionally weak by almost the whole of society. When it comes down to it, nobody expects women to join the army because 1)women are more times than not physically weaker and 2)are expected to be the ones that cry more often. This, I believe, is one of the many stereotypes that leads to how they are described. For example women are not "rugged" like men but instead are petite, cute, beautiful, and polite. All of which are many of the softer adjectives. At the same time women are depicted visually as being clean and vibrant. Women are supposed to wear makeup and be as much like a barbie doll as possible. In literature, it is never the woman that starts the war but is the one urging the man not to fight. Nobody ever expected the woman to be a violent individual. Furthermore, when reading a movie script it is most likely that the script about the ruthless killing machine out to kill his way to the top is written by a man, and the romantic comedy about a couple's whacky adventures on their honeymoon is most likely written by a woman. Even now as I write, I am reinforcing what society has told me: Women are softer, more delicate, nicer people than men are. Is this true? Or is this performativity? Has society layed down the ground rules for how both men and women are supposed to act and have those rules given way to how we picture and talk about the natural women? This writer does not know for certain but I do know that, right now, I think about, talk about, and visualize men and women differently.