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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Why does the male gender role have generally less flexibility? Feminine men seem more mocked than masculine women, you can name a baby girl 'Max' but it's weird for a baby boy to be "Sarah", women being bi is basically a fun norm while 'bi guys' are stereotyped as gay. Why?
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Aegithalos caudatus
@housecarpenter
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@Aella_Girl
Because traditionally, the male role is seen as superior to the female one. If a woman wants to take on the male role you can at least respect her for giving it a try (futile as it may be), whereas for a man to take on the female role is just humiliating.
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Aegithalos caudatus
@housecarpenter
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@Aella_Girl
Your hesitation may be related to the fact that in addition to the "crude patriarchy" model of gender roles I described, there's also complementarianism (in which gender roles are separate but equal). From a complementarian point of view the asymmetry you describe is indeed odd
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