Is America moving toward or away from gender neutrality?

Question

The gender roles of the sexes appear to be moving toward homogeneity, yet will a backlash develop?

Answer 1

America isn't moving at all. Since the 80s, nothing has changed. We are in the midst of a backlash at this very moment. Oh, you're not a woman - how would you know?

Answer 2

A "politically correct" person would say "toward", where as a realist would no doubt remind You that You cannot force someone to do or to be something that They are not. Courts can create laws (and have them enforced), but You can never make people willingly comply with something that They really only just barely tolerate. "Positive Female bias" is not the way to produce a homogeneous society, rather it is the best way to fracture the iconic perception of "Gender Neutrality".

Answer 3

I've noticed that backlashes seem to develop in 20-year cycles. The next one should be here around 2020. Hopefully my prediction is wrong and the genders will have achieved full equality by then.

Answer 4

Near as I can discern, all political and social re-evaluations tend to go too far, then swing back the other way. This is hard to count on in this "brave" new world, though. A relentlessy impersonal but still global collection of digital next-door neighbors that even McLuhan probably never glimpsed in the worst of his nightmares.

The future might be just as scary as the one in Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," which, at the time it was written, seemed an outrageous satire of egalitarian imperatives. The fact that it does no longer is the really scary part.

For my part, I'm not gonna shave my back or get my chest waxed or prance around like a fruit even if it ends up making me unnattractive to every last woman on the planet. Could live with that. And at that point none of them woud be attractive to me, either.

One can only do what one can to to try to derail this persistent, dollar-driven media effort to turn night into day, girls into boys and boys into girls, to blame EVERY human failing on societal unfairness, and effect a sad downward spiral into educationally and attitudanally-enforced textbook Nihilism by ramming it down our throats like flouridated water, by the usual group of s*hitasses that can profit monetarily from turning ALL or our brains to slop.

Yeah, well F*uck 'em. And basketball players that wear women's underwear. Just use an axe. Not yer dick.

Answer 5

Americans like to see through the eyes of citizens devout to their country, worshiping it. Open up your eyes people! There's prejudice all around you. The bars of the jail may be bent, but we aren't breaking out for a long time. Gender neutrality? Yeah right. Ask me again when there's been a president that's not a white guy.

And don't even start with the "only a foreigner would say that". I'm born and bred in America, as was my mother.

Answer 6

In order to ensure "gender neutrality" women have had to make demands of men where nothing is reciprocated, for example women continue to require:

* Affirmative action
* Sexual harassment laws
* Maternity leave, flexitime, other benefits
* A skewed education system which marginalised boys
* Drugging boys with ritalin so they can act in accordance

They continue to prefer:

* Husbands richer than them
* Chivalry
* Being asked rather than doing the asking
* Sitting on child support welfare
* Not working as much or in as risky jobs as men but demanding equal pay

Basically it isn't working. Couple this with the fact that the people that are supposedly only about gender neutrality are also instating other laws which are extremely gender biased, like the divorce and domestic abuse laws and you have the failure of a gender neutral society.

Answer 7

Gender roles as in social science gender roles? Perhaps, people can do anything they want to do consciously, but you can not ignore the long reach of the genes, either. So, homogeneity? No, variety.

Answer 8

the backlash is already well underway here in the UK,the girls grow up thinking there men drink there self's to death and have no idea how to act the same applys to males only now are the so called social planner wakeing up to the fact that this all add up to a population crisis with both sex's for filing the same roll.

Answer 9

Thanks for narrowing the question to ROLES. Otherwise the answers can get unwieldy. Yes, there are certain things in which we've gone too far, certain things in which we've not gone far enough, and certain things in which we've arrived at the right position. Depending on which of these three categories one is examining, the answer will be different. In the final analysis, gender will always distinguish us in certain ways, but hopefully we'll equalize what needs to be equalized without compromising what needs to remain distinct.

Answer 10

I think the centerline moves left & right a bit, but will never veer off course more than 10%.
We are very firmly a 2 gender society!