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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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Honestly? The explanation doesn't easily fit in a tweet, but in a sense 'capitalism'. As feudalism fell away only men's labor was paid, leading to a crude separation of "productive" and "reproductive" labor (housework/raising a family). These roles reenforced themselves /1

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This is actually a way that the patriarch hurts men, and feminism helps all. Basically, men interested in work around the home or taking care of kids are seen as not doing "productive" work, and thus lesser. /2

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Bi women being seen as playful, whereas men are seen as gay or a threat, is a symptom of homophobia and the male gaze. Imagining two women is "hot", imagininy two men is "gay" /3

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yeah but why is *that* a symptom of homophobia? Why are two gay women not seen as a threat? I could easily imagine a world where people hate gay women more because they're not "presented as available to men" and gay men are just written off as "dudes being horny"

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I hear in women's schools being seen as maybe gay is like that, but from the sexist male perspective women are seen as innocent/pure/infantile, unlike men, and two clean things touching is remain pure.

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Why is innocence and purity a sexist male perspective? Why isn't it also a female perspective? Is there any stereotypical gendered perspective that you'd say "sexist women see it like ____"?

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The idea that women are pure? Perhaps my word choice was poor, but I meant that it's a sexist perspective put forth in a society where men have more economic power (esp a generation or two ago). Women can be sexist too, of course. Minorities can be racist, even against themselves