What is Socially Acceptible?

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-broken-arm-boy-cheerleader-threatened/story?id=11753915

Ohio 11-year-old Tyler Wilson wanted to join the traveling cheer team. He was successful in doing so, and was told by his mother that he would probably be picked on and he should be ready for it. I am not sure he was ready for what happened next. The football players at his school did pick on him and they ended up getting to a fight and breaking Tyler’s arm. Now that he has told on them they are threatening to break his other arm. The society we live in today is all about social norms and if we step out of those “norms” we will be seen as different. Just because a little boy wanted to do cheer instead of football he was seen as different, to be different in today’s society comes at a price. Males have to be seen as strong and aggressive, so to do something like cheerleading which is seen as “feminine,” goes against the idea of what a male should be and act like. Sports is not helping this stereotype either, it continues to push the idea of “proper behavior” and attitude of men and women and how they should fit into their roles in society.

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Ben Ott