Gender Stereotypes In Crimethinc's Every Girl Every Boy

Does society influence or more importantly limit our ideas? The gender stereotypes that exist in our world these days make us ignorant, and maybe even discriminatory towards one gender and what they can and can’t do. Crimethinc’s Every Girl Every Boy addresses the struggle of escaping gender stereotypes by using syntax, conflict, and imagery to convey the theme of the text. The theme of Every Girl Every Boy shows what our society has become, how we view/perceive other people, and the way the world is biased toward gender. This poem clearly illustrates that gender enables many powers and limitations. For males, some powers include being strong, intelligent, and not having to care about their appearance. “For every boy who is burdened with the constant expectation of knowing everything, there

For every girl who is tired of being called over-sensitive, there is a boy who fears to be gentle, to weep.” (Crimethinc 1, 3) For females, some powers are that they can be vulnerable or sensitive. On the other hand, some limitations are that females cannot be strong, intelligent, or masculine. They cannot lead or they’ll seem bossy, and they have to look pretty. The author uses syntax to convey these stereotypes by using parallelism in the grammatical structure of the poem. “For every boy for whom competition is the only way to prove his masculinity, there is a girl who is called unfeminine when she competes.” (Crimethinc 4) Crimethinc uses correlative conjunctions in each sentence to display the different stereotypes for both boy and girl. “For every A, B” is the format he uses when writing the poem. The author also uses conflict and imagery to convey the stereotypes by addressing the conflict in our society of people gender stereotyping everyday and why it is bad. He uses imagery throughout the various examples of stereotypes he gives in the