that the home/ family/ cleaning/ cooking/ child rearing is woman's work (and men are incapable)
and the workplace/ money making/ ruling is men's work (and women are incapable)
included in these roles must come the negativity, women being sexualized but called sluts if they are sexual, men being notorious for infidelity, women being weak & fainty and if they're strong they must be lesbians, men being perpetually strong and if they're not they're gay, women being bad at math, men being bad at communication, women can't work, men can't raise children... etc etc...
do these roles seem helpful to anyone? why?
does anyone agree that these roles can be damaging to those that don't fit in them neatly? such as women who work or single fathers?
could the lingering gender roles be the source of double standards, and not necessarily feminism as some suggest?
2007-02-22
12:06:22
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