Whose role is to do what? traditionally, women are in the house and men are at work getting the money, but in this day and age women are going to work and bringing home the dough. Women are suppossed to be submissive and men are supposed to be dominant, but now there is a whole wave of role reversal of the the dominant woman. so, in this day and age, what does it mean to be a man and what does it mean to be a woman? other than biologically. why do we have these gender roles?
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Both37% Voted for by Weydon, thirtysomething, Drakino.
A great deal of it is all made up, and even with an open mind we can not shake everything from the stigma we were raised with. But some stuff is just natural.
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It is a butter knife because I say it is.25% Voted for by JanisChambers, Piscean Wisdom.
You give a girl child dolls and tiny pink dresses, set her in front of my little pony and strawberry shortcake. You flood her with images of domestic life and when she grows up, goes though her rebel phase, and then find a husband to have a perfect little suburban life you then call it 'nature'. It isn't human nature to automatically fill roles, it's human nature to manipulate things into his or her chosen direction. We started with using sticks to gather insects from mounds for food, those sticks turned into spears. After learning how to manipulate nature to make tools, we manipulated animals to make pets and livestock. The wolf became the dog, but while we did this to other things, we did it to ourselves. The gender roles we now take for granted as 'nature' are simply institutions we have created to serve our needs. Our failing is in the religious way we go about living up to that true nature of alteration, we fall short of knowing how we adapt, so we fall short of knowing how to evolve.
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Role SurrenderVoted for by nanrek.
The best deal for guys is role surrender, i.e., women go to work and clean the house when they come home while the guy watches TV and scans the internet!
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RolesVoted for by Dwn.
Woman was made for man, and not man for woman, A womans role is what ever her husband , or father tells her it is, But men , do not forget , first you were commanded to love your wives, Dont be tyrants or beaters , define her role out of concern fairness and love , it is your responcebility
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good point, but what do you mean just natural? is it that even without these little "traditions" and such, that these roles would happen anywaysKazrith
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July 26, 2006
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Equal but diverse
Is it possible to be right without someone being wrong? I think it is. In fact I believe to presume genders are not rightly deserving of equal good will and status is an ill social construct in my view. It seems to me that diversity has given rise to inequality based on functional advantages given certain tasks. By that I mean we seem well capable of construing ability into an advantage into a means of oppressing to maintain the advantage. Perhaps we should cut that out. :-) PeaceSeptember 16, 2006
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