Library / Feelings

For when you feel

Gender Expectations / Constraint

Feeling boxed in by what people expect from you because of your gender.

168 picks matched to this feeling

Films

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  Girl, Interrupted
  Film · 1999
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  Hidden Figures
  Film · 2016
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  20th Century Women
  Film · 2016
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  Bend It Like Beckham
  Film · 2002
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  Billy Elliot
  Film · 2000
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  Brokeback Mountain
  Film · 2005
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  Kramer vs. Kramer
  Film · 1979
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  Little Women
  Film · 2019
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  Pariah
  Film · 2011
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  Real Women Have Curves
  Film · 2002
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  The Wrestler
  Film · 2008
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  Friday Night Lights
  Film · 2004
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  Revolutionary Road
  Film · 2008
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  Swallow
  Film · 2019
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  The Hours
  Film · 2002
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  I Don't Know How She Does It
  Film · 2011
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  Incredibles 2
  Film · 2018
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  Force Majeure
  Film · 2014

TV shows

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  Adolescence
  TV · 2025
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  The Sopranos
  TV · 1999–2007
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  All in the Family
  TV · 1971–1979
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  Breaking Bad
  TV · 2008–2013
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  Envious (Envidiosa)
  TV · 2024–2026
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  Mad Men
  TV · 2007–2015
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  Unorthodox
  TV · 2020
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  Borgen
  TV · 2010–2013; 2022
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  The Handmaid's Tale
  TV · 2017–2025
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  Made in Heaven
  TV · 2019–2023
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  The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  TV · 1970–1977
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  Ramy
  TV · 2019–2022

Documentaries

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  Minding the Gap
  Documentary · 2018
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  The Mask You Live In
  Documentary · 2015
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  Mind/Game: The Unquiet Journey of Chamique Holdsclaw
  Documentary · 2015
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  Disclosure
  Documentary · 2020
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  Father Soldier Son
  Documentary · 2020
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  Jane
  Documentary · 2017
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  Murderball
  Documentary · 2005

Books

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  The Bell Jar
  Book · 1963
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  Convenience Store Woman
  Book · 2016
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  A Doll's House
  Book · 1879
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  Everything I Never Told You
  Book · 2014
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  Heavy: An American Memoir
  Book · 2018
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  Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
  Book · 2016
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  Little Women
  Book · 1868–1869
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  My Brilliant Friend
  Book · 2011
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  Persepolis
  Book · 2000
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  Things Fall Apart
  Book · 1958
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  The Yellow Wallpaper
  Book · 1892
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  Child's Play (Takekurabe) and Other Stories
  Book · 1894–1896
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  A Double Life
  Book · 1848
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  Effi Briest
  Book · 1894–1895
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  Girl, Interrupted
  Book · 1993
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  The Handmaid's Tale
  Book · 1985
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  The Hours
  Book · 1998
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  The House on Mango Street
  Book · 1984
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  La Regenta
  Book · 1884–1885
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  The Left Hand of Darkness
  Book · 1969
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  The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  Book · c. 1132–1138
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  Like Water for Chocolate
  Book · 1989
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  Middlemarch
  Book · 1871–1872
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  Milkman
  Book · 2018
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  The Mill on the Floss
  Book · 1860
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  Nervous Conditions
  Book · 1988
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  The Poet X
  Book · 2018
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  Professor Hieronimus
  Book · 1895
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  The Red Badge of Courage
  Book · 1895
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  Reply to Sor Filotea (La Respuesta)
  Book · 1691
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  Revolutionary Road
  Book · 1961
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  So Long a Letter
  Book · 1979
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  Sula
  Book · 1973
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  The Tale of Genji
  Book · c. 1010
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  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  Book · 1848
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  Their Eyes Were Watching God
  Book · 1937
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  A Thousand Splendid Suns
  Book · 2007
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  The Vegetarian
  Book · 2007
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  Wild Swans
  Book · 1991
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  The Woman Warrior
  Book · 1976
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  Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
  Book · 2014
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  Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)
  Book · 2019
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  Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
  Book · 2015
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  The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
  Book · 1989

Songs

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  Dead Boys
  Song · 2018
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  Beautiful
  Song · 2009
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  Boys Don't Cry
  Song · 1979
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  Human
  Song · 2016
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  Keep Ya Head Up
  Song · 1993
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  Nothing Else Matters
  Song · 1991
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  Superman (It's Not Easy)
  Song · 2000 (album; single 2001)
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  Try
  Song · 2014
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  Unpretty
  Song · 1999
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  When I Was Your Man
  Song · 2013
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  Reflection
  Song · 1998
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  Honor to Us All
  Song · 1998
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  I'll Make a Man Out of You
  Song · 1998
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  Mrs. Potato Head
  Song · 2015
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  iT
  Song · 2014
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  Girls
  Song · 2010
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  9 to 5
  Song · 1980
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  Stupid Girls
  Song · 2006
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  Androgynous
  Song · 1984
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  Cheerleader
  Song · 2011
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  Nxde
  Song · 2022
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  Caro
  Song · 2018
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  Sans contrefaçon
  Song · 1987
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  One's on the Way
  Song · 1971
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  He Thinks He'll Keep Her
  Song · 1992
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  XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)
  Song · 1994
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  Is There Life Out There
  Song · 1992
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  Superwoman
  Song · 2007
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  King
  Song · 2022
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  Superwoman
  Song · 1988
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  Just a Girl
  Song · 1995
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  Pretty Hurts
  Song · 2013
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  U.N.I.T.Y.
  Song · 1993
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  TOMBOY
  Song · 2022
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  Rebel Girl
  Song · 1992
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  ***Flawless
  Song · 2013
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  Father Time
  Song · 2022
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  Quiero Bailar
  Song · 2003
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  Boys Will Be Boys
  Song · 2020
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  Nightmare
  Song · 2019
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  Balance ton quoi
  Song · 2018
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  Real Men
  Song · 1982
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  The Pill
  Song · 1975
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  Dress
  Song · 1991
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  Glory Box
  Song · 1994
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  The Man
  Song · 2019
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  Man's World
  Song · 2020
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  Girl in a Country Song
  Song · 2014

Album

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  Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
  Album · 2022

Podcast

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  The Man Enough Podcast
  Podcast · 2021–present (status unclear after 2024)

Stand-up specials

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  Cameron Esposito: Rape Jokes
  Stand-up · 2018
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  Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty
  Stand-up · 2020
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  Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
  Stand-up · 2018
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  Mae Martin: SAP
  Stand-up · 2023
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  Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
  Stand-up · 2016
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  Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife
  Stand-up · 2018
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  Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years
  Stand-up · 2025
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  Daniel Sloss: X
  Stand-up · 2019
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  Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go
  Stand-up · 2024
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  Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees
  Stand-up · 2024

Videos

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  Listening to shame | Brené Brown | TED
  Video · 2012
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  (FIXED AUDIO) Kevin Breel: Confessions of a Depressed Comic at TEDxKids@Ambleside
  Video · 2013
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  A call to men | Tony Porter
  Video · 2010
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  Growing Up Trans (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
  Video · 2015
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  Why I'm Done Trying To Be "Man Enough" | Justin Baldoni @TED
  Video · 2017
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  Can we all "have it all"? | Anne-Marie Slaughter
  Video · 2013
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  Purl (Pixar SparkShorts)
  Video · 2019

Book chapter

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  Daring Greatly: Chapter 3, Understanding and Combating Shame
  Book chapter · 2012