Society still sucks

What has society done to screw up humans this time? Well, it is telling boys/girls how to act. You think it could hold off its attack until maybe high school or college, but it throws everything at you the day you are born. They wrap girls in pink and boys in blue blankets. What makes pink a girl color? Kids are like sponges, the absorb everything and anything and it shows pretty early on in life. I am 4 years younger than my sister. I always looked up to my sister and followed her around and pretty much wanted to be like her as a little kid. She was playing with barbies in her room so I wanted to join her, my mom stops me and says that barbies aren't for boys and that I should go play with my trucks. I never questioned my mom because I knew she was boss in my house. From such a young age, I started learning how society wanted a boy to act. I recently found this experiment that is pretty much sums up everything.

Monkey Experiment

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result, and all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon the monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.

Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been done around here.