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In reply to the discussion: Is it true? "How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism" [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)way to try to morph that personal problem into a "truthyism."
There's never been anything GOOD about assigning roles to ANYONE on ANY BASIS unless you assign those roles based on merit and interest and willingness to learn.
Men can take children to doctors' appointments, women can change tires,
Men can read bedtime stories; women can earn a living for the household.
When I read these folksy little "heh-heh-heh- just sittin on the front porch arranging the world into my own personal boxes" posts, I am like most thinking people who most assuredly do not chuckle with you and scratch our crotches pining for the Good Ole Days.
You may be the "man of the house keepin' everyone fed and secure" but some day you will go away. ( Yet this FACT never enters into the "Gender Role" anti-logic. )
I can only assume that patriarchs pass "their" women around to the next brother or friend in line after they die? What DO your wives and daughters and mothers do when there is no patriarch left? Crumple and wither?
And if your mothers and wives die first, do you starve and never have clean laundry? Does a young widower automatically have to pass his small children off to the nearest female?
And what about same sex couples? I guess they never get a thing done, or only do half the "roles?" Like maybe: keep all the cars running but never run the vacuum cleaner? Or always have fabulous drapes but no one ever takes out the trash?
Talk about fantasy worlds......