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Sat Feb 15, 2014, 05:32 PMHockeyMom (11,757 posts) Gender roles I have been seeing a load of crap recently about gender roles and how boys should be taught to be boys and girls taught to be girls. What the hell does that even mean? I worked in a Pre-K class which had "Centers" for Free Time. The kids could choose where they wanted to go. There were Arts and Crafts and Reading types that were gender neutral, but many would be considered in the past as gender oriented: Housekeeping and Care Care, Building, Cars and Trucks, Dress up (Police, Firefighters, Disney Princess). The boys only went went to the "boy" Centers? The girls only went to the "girl" centers? Absolutely, not. Both genders switched all around. Boys would race cars and build, but they would also put on aprons, cook dinner, feed and diaper the babies. Girls did that too, but they played Demolition Derby, built a fort, or put on police uniforms to catch the "bad guys". There was a 5 year old boy who had 5 brothers and recently a baby sister. He always wanted to go the Housekeeping and Child Care Center. He told me that his Mom said he and all his brothers had to help around the house. He said he wanted to learn how to diaper and feed his baby sister because he LOVED her. Not "manly"? I told him someday he would make a very good DADDY. What the hell is wrong with that? No male is EVER going to have to cook (Chef Ramsey hear that?), clean a floor, or do dishes? No Daddy is ever going to feed or diaper his baby? No woman is ever going to have to drive a car (lol), cannot work in construction, or join the police force, or the military? Yes, some boys DID put on the Disney Princess costumes. So what? The girls also put on "male" dress up costumes too. I was born in 1948 back in the good old days when "men were men and women were women". Not for me. While my Dad was a Longshoreman, my Mom also worked full time (NOOOOO). Since Dad got home earlier than Mom, HE did most of the cooking and cleaning back in the 50s. Tell him he wasn't a "man" for doing that? Um, I don't think anyone would want to do that. Grandma (born 1900) lived with us. There was not an electrical appliance in the house that she could not take apart and fix. Womanly? lol All Dad would do was shrug, and say, "If she doesn't blow up the house, and saves money hiring repairmen, so what?" No Gender Roles does not exist, and NEVER HAS.
Response to HockeyMom (Original post)Sat Feb 15, 2014, 05:39 PM seabeyond (92,243 posts) 1. exactly hockey it is bullshit. and it is being sung loudly in every corner. all the time mediadefining the separation of what is manly defining men thru their contorted definition and men buying the bullshit. the advancement of evo psychology to establish once in for all, the manly man, in all his refinement in the cave man days in the name of faux science, rolling eyes. and why.... ? backlash. women are doing to well, looks like we might get along and somewhere along the way, they baulked. ask for the definition of masculinity that is suppose to separate the genders. courage strength honesty integrity this is gender specific? today, it is merely defined in sex. on and on and on and on. and how well they can degrade, demean, humiliate a woman. call out the c word, fine. progressive board? fine. THAT... is being a man.
Response to seabeyond (Reply #1)Sat Feb 15, 2014, 06:56 PM Warpy (74,298 posts) 4. And the backlash is getting strongerLook at the way they posed those thong clad women on the cover of SI. There had to be some serious photoshopping going on, that degree of lordosis is life threatening. The cover, with the models thong clad and topless, was porn. Soft porn, yes, but porn. The better we do at being fully human, the more they try to objectify us into adolescent fantasy comic book women, Photoshopped into contortions the human body does not do while enlarging tits and especially ass and narrowing the waist to the point that internal organs would be bruised by it in real life. At least there are real world men who get the point. If you know them, treasure them.
they try to objectify us into adolescent fantasy comic book women.....
In a nut shell...."I ain't getting any, and nobody else should, too".
soon as you find your manhood all else falls into place.
If Ft. Hood was "workplace violence," then the Hindenburg was an air show.
I don't know if sand glows in the dark, but we're gonna find out.
they try to objectify us into adolescent fantasy comic book women
I will admit, the thought of PhDD in a Wonder Woman costume has crossed my mind...
We need a photoshop here.
Tits too small.