I get so impatient with people talking abt social pressures re: gender roles because the way they do it is so weak-willed & defeatist.
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Someone just asked me what is a person to do if refusing socially conservative gender roles loses her her family? Be sad? Lean on friends?
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Unclear what other solution there is. Make your family, community stop being socially conservative? Somehow turn the social pressure round?
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Or alternatively ppl who have told me they now feel society devalues them as a stay-at-home mother coz feminism such a strong cultural force
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The sense of having been wronged by this pressure seems to imply some kind of social adjustment required. Society must share my values more.
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In fact, it doesn't have to. It just has to give you the right to live according to them and also make arguments for them.
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Then you really need to find like-minded ppl for your social support & cultivate resilience to being exposed to other ideas.
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I don't think we do too badly here, really, re: gender roles. There are plenty of role models consistent with traditional & non-conforming.
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The idea that women wd be unduly & helplessly influenced by what they read & were uncritical consumers of art, rather than savvy readers 1/
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used 2b considered a misogynistic perspective. See all the 18th c lit warning that women shdnt read novels or (from 1760s on) magazines. Coz
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it wd 'corrupt' them, make them stupid, lead them 2 belief ridiculous crap, etc. In fact, all evidence shows most readers are/were more
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able 2 retain a sense of perspective & less brain-washable than that.
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