Friday, October 10, 2008

Does our society allow women to assume masculine roles more readily than it allows males to assume roles traditionally called feminine?

In today's society, it's more easily accepted for women to to assume roles that were originally considered to be for males only than for men to assume roles traditionally called feminine. I think it's harder to accept males assuming roles originally called feminine because there are some things that we never assumed men would do or want to do. For some reason, people get weirded out if a father is raising a child on his own because that means he does laundry, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the house and child. People are always shocked when they hear a male say that he can cook. My grandpa cooks better than half the women in our family. It's hard to accept males taking on traditional female roles because we are not used to it.

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