A Call To Bring More Respect & Gratitude For All: Reflections on Breaking Free From Toxic Masculinity & Femininity

As the Thanksgiving holiday in the US is celebrated, it frequently creates an opportunity to take a pause and reflect.  During one this time, I started reflecting on societal fabrics and how they can embed and infer how one should show up in the world.  And how those perceptions affect how one shows up in relationships and then by domino effect how it shows up in societies’ systems.  I am going to address this solely through the lens of my perceptions in the United States, as well as through the lens of how the traditional male and female gender roles play out as a result.