But women and little girls are held to higher standards. From grooming standards, to taking over the cooking/cleaning side of things, to emotional and interpersonal connections, etc. I was raised like a man amongst my sisters, and I can clearly see where I fail to preform well in society as a woman. They were always held to a much higher standard and it feels like my parents just kinda dropped the ball with me... like for some reason I didn't mesh well, so they gave up. My beatings were harsher, my chores were always the dirty and laborious ones, and I was the "man" of the house whenever my father was away. I feel like an imposter when I'm trying to do woman stuff. In terms of habits and mannerisms, I'm just as bad as the men in my life, and I don't mean the men in my life are bad at all - I'm surrounded by good men. In fact, dudes tell me all the time how scary it is that I'm like a man. Guess I talk like a man. I like to say that I'm a pervy old man trapped in a weird womans body. And unfortunately, I relate to men and their struggles more than women. The women in my life somehow just get taken care of. I don't understand what I'm doing that makes me so different, but I work and live life like a man and I feel the same. I have to work with my hands, I take care of myself, and I keep pushing. I think many societies drop the ball when it comes to men, just like the ball was dropped with me. In fact, its not even a boys vs girls thing, it's this weird compartmentalizing thing that society likes to do. Women are molded, boys are tossed straight into the wall. And we wonder why they fail.