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Okay, so we have to get you a sword, a shield, blue pants.

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Oh, and I can give you the mustache I wore last Halloween.

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Oh, come on.

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So what if you didn't get the role of the princess?

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Being a knight is awesome.

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At least you're not playing a tree.

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Gender role stereotypes are when a person is expected to act in a certain way

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based on society's expectations related to their gender.

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Traditional gender roles go back to a time when there were clear

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and, at times, unequal rules about how people were expected to act based on their gender.

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People who were born male were expected to be strong and aggressive,

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not emotional, and, of course, to love sports.

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People who were born female were expected to be kind and nurturing,

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emotional and domestic,

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meaning they were all supposed to be able to cook and clean.

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Gender role stereotypes also affect people's understanding of

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who is beautiful and who is not.

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People still go to great lengths to try and conform to these unrealistic ideals they see in popular media.

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They diet, obsessively exercise, and go through plastic surgery.

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Additionally, strict stereotypes about gender police people's emotions.

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Girls are not expected to show anger, and boys aren't supposed to be empathetic, nurturing, or vulnerable.

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Luckily, as times have changed, so have people's expectations about gender roles.

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More and more people are free to behave in ways that are true to who they really are.

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And that is a good thing.