Gender norms may determine teen happiness
Regardless of sexual orientation, teens whose gender expression varies from the norm are not as happy as their gender-conforming peers.
“Perhaps some adolescents are harassed not so much because they are gay,” says Cornell University Professor Ritch Savin-Williams, “but because they violate ‘acceptable’ ways of acting. If so, sexism may be a more pervasive problem among youth than homophobia.”
Full story at Futurity.
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