Let's face it. The society that we live in treats men and women as separate entities. The roles that are ascribed to the two genders are different. Men, for instance, are seldom allowed to express the human emotion of vulnerability. "Boys don't cry," is the way they are conditioned. But women, on the other hand, are sometimes discouraged from revealing the true strength of their personalities because this deeply patriarchal world of ours would otherwise feel threatened. And this reinforces age-old prejudices that need something as monumental as the #MeToo movement to be questioned.

This has been the case for as long as we have had documented records of history, and was true for nineteenth-century Victorian England as well. That's when British playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called Candida, which tore through the society's hypocrisy when it came to gender stereotypes and biases. One of the male characters, Eugene Marchbank, is portrayed as effete for example, which is what makes him charming. Another one, James Morrell, has his weaknesses laid bare after his veneer of confidence born out of societal acceptance is shattered. And the lead character, Candida, Morrell's wife, is a seductress who, at the end of the day, is the rock that keeps the men from crumbling after being confronted by their own insecurities.