Question by Erik B: Do men face a stronger gender stereotype than women in America?
Women seem to be more free to wear cross-gender clothing and to act outside their established gender role. Consider how the media portrays men and women. It seems men are either the stereotypical macho man or the bumbling idiot. Men are less free to show their feelings. Women can be competent, intelligent, and athletic.
Also consider divorce rates: women are twice as likely to initiate divorce as men are. It seems to me divorce laws cater to women. A man can agree to have children but then the woman can divorce, usually get custody, and obtain financial support without providing a reason and without social stigma. If women want to be equal in the workplace should they also be equal in relationships? Perhaps my question is becoming over-broad.
Best answer to whoever adds the most to the discussion, regardless of if I agree with the conclusion drawn. Please state whether you are a man, woman, undecided, or other.
Best answer:
Answer by John A
I am a man. I know a few guys who are virtual slaves to their ex-wives and the state. These men work 80 hours a week because they must pay child support for children who they virtually never see as their former wives have moved out of state. There are cases galore where women have abused children, yet it is men who must walk carefully
around any child not his own. I know one guy who would make a great baseball coach for little league but this will never happen as one false accusation and he is a goner. His sin: he is a single man and our feminist sisters are always quick to point out what a danger such creatures are. I wonder how many men will never become Big Brothers because of their far-from-irrational fear of females making accusations.
How many kids are and will suffer because men are afraid to be around them without a phalanx of adults to ensure that nothing can be asserted. Middle class females who have never known anything but leisure pretend to have been put upon by the evil patriarchy when, in fact, their mothers and grandmothers lived sheltered lives, abusing those very African Americans whose backs they now ride into Affirmative Action entitlements. Though many psychopathic men love abortion because it means that they can get an enormous financial burden flushed down the drain, how many good men have suffered hideously as they await the word from Mount Olympus announcing that yes their child will be allowed to live after all.
And who can stand one more commercial where the moronic man cannot handle the simplest task whereas his wife and daughters are always prepared to handle every contingency. As a draft looms how many young men will get ground into dust while their female counterparts say, ‘draft, we don’t need no stinking draft.” Hillary now walks astride the world just frothing at the mouth to show how tough she is but at no time was she or will she be forced to sign up for any draft that may come. How dare she have run for president when there was no conceivable way for her to ever have seen action. Even the draft-dodging Geroge W. Bush could have been, through some gross oversight, sent into combat. Hillary and millions like her get to enjoy the benefits of their position on top of the heap, while not having to face the risks unless they so choose.
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