@adolphus the sorrowful There are a few key reasons i disagree that gender norms are (inheritly) harmful, and why they are harmful in __today's__ world.
Let's start with why it's bad today, It is only harmful to today's society - as modern society has largely let go of the cultural responsibilities and honoring of men and women.
If a person was a good example of the cultural role model they were supposed to be - they were encouraged by society. This is the root of the problem - it is not the norms themselves,
but the shifting culture which has made it harmful. Society can make a thing harmful or beneficial regardless of the inherit negatives / positives of a system or norm. These norms which
society has largely let go of are detrimental for the foundations of a functioning and humanistic civilization. Without it we are first extremely independent beings, then we break down and
are open to influence to larger authorities, becoming mindless drones. A large part of the problem of mental health today is a signifigant portion of the population has grown up without
a Father Figure (or Mother Figure, but its less common), and growing up without a Father Figure leads to increased depression, increased feminization (yes, seriously) - which means
many young boys grow up without a proper figure to teach them how to control their emotions. You might say that men should go the female route of emotionalization and express
their emotions openly - but this is bad for the continuity of boundries between men and women.
