You Are Conducting a Study of the Ways in Which

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You are conducting a study of the ways in which males get teased or hurt for acting too feminine. You have decided that for the purposes of this study, "teased" means that their behavior is explicitly joked about, laughed at, ridiculed, commented upon, criticized, judged negatively, or copied in an exaggerated way. Which component of the research process have you been engaging in?