Male & Female Cultural Roles

Women are beautiful but can be very complex creatures, the masculine and feminine traditional and cultural roles began in the hunter gatherer societies in the Paleolithic era, man hunted and provided and the women did the gathering, cleaned out the cave and had babies.

The roles were seen as:-
Female: To nurture
Male: To provide

Now the main traditional cultural ideas are different to a certain extent:-

Female: Has fluid gender communication and overlapped roles.
Male: Masculine toughness and clear but overlapping gender roles.

So where does feminism come into the equation? And why do we now have feminazis? (feminists who are perceived as extreme or radical)

Feminists: Support women’s rights and gender equality, they are open-minded and educated, they like men, don’t practice witchcraft or simply become lesbians.

Feminazis: Believe in female domination, are closed minded, are often ugly and think every male is a rapist and are more often than not lesbians.

As we are CS people come from a lot of different cultures and backgrounds, what are the thoughts in your Country and what do you believe to be the perfect Male/Female roles?
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Pat it was a mans world until the 1920's, but some cultures still subdue women.
daears, You applying to be Danielas Toy boy?cheers
Nah, it was alright up till the '50's. After that, well... we all know what happened really.

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Well pat, you have to admit that women are wonderful and we cannot live without them, Its the age of the modern man!
I hate admitting it....but i have never been ambitious.....just went with the flow...
I have always admired strong women....
Well, Dears certainly has 3 of the numbers required (2,6 & 7)

Maybe this is why we have similar tastes and vibrations? -Toy boy or not. But friendship, definitely! applause
I forgot, all my best friends seem to be Pisces too.
Cal, I dont think you had no ambition at all, being a mother and raising 3 kids for 21 years, looking after everything else is to be applauded, that makes you strong.hug
Go Daniela go!......I also have 3 of those numbers you mentioned but not a Pisces I'm either an Aries or Pyrex, not sure.
Sorry Map, i haven't read all the comments . I don't believe in gender roles in society anymore. I like to see the person and i just see their gender as part of their character or personality. Now days a woman can do anything, after being without a partner I can truly say that I can provide for my family, I can load a truck with wood or I can sew. There is nothing I can't do if I want to do it. So I don't believe in perfect female / male roles.
Hi Ish, The blog was really about cultural differences, but as you can do all the things you mentioned thats great!hug
You don´t have to be a Pisces Map. I need the numbers 2,3,6,7,8

What sign are you? Taurus? Taurus is also good for me. Aries too.
Well Map, I'm glad I live in Sapin where things are changing and the so called gender roles are disappearing. Gender isn't a worry anymore in marriage and for jobs or anything.
Name and birthday, first 2 steps of identity theft/fraud...
Here comes Parsnips. Do you have any numbers for me? dunno

Sorry Map, couldn´t help it. hijack
Daniela, I'm convinced I am a pyrex, test tube creation!

Ish, Yes Ive noticed the changes here, its good.

Pat..Its OK, hijack away, you are right in what you say about giving away too much info.
Ken, I doubt the roles would be reversed, but do think if a woman did the hunting the meat would arrive home packaged and labeled and not a carcass strapped to the hood of a pickup with drunken whooping males in charge!
I, for one, would be quite happy with a man who would clear the toilets grin
Molly, Real men sit down to urinate and not see how far up the wall they can reach, they should also clean the loo after dropping the kids off, its just good manners.
map. most men .have certain draw backs that frighten woman...woman on the 0therhand..dont.and are not willing to approach it....jmo.rolling on the floor laughing
tru, And most women do scare the living daylights out of men in a cultural sense grin
My mother was a traditional woman and so am I and always will be.I was a stay at home mother and my late husband was the bread winner.

Never been into all that Feminism stuff.
Hi CC, So is that more of a cultural thing?
Hi map Yes.
CC I thought so, same in Iowa, Missouri etc, and still seen as the way it should be today.

I do wonder if the Amish culture in this respect will ever change...I doubt it.
And liberalism/feminism effect depends on what class you are. Feminism to working class women spells the double shift; slaving away for your boss and then going home and doing the same for your family.

For middle class women liberalism and feminism mean the chance to play at a career, the choice of being breadwinner OR homemaker, and this is supported by cheap labour and cheap nannies shipped in from abroad which is what forces the wages of working class women(and men)down meaning that they have to work the double shift.

For wealthy and bourgeois women feminism is the expansion of choice, options and support, for working class women feminism is the doubling of duty, responsibility and work(if she's not a benefit scrounger).
And the above is part of the reason why feminism means nothing to women under 30. The young being poorer and more working class means that feminism no longer spells the lala life on the subsidised jolly of makework careers, it means working twice as hard for half as much to pay back the debts of their economically unreal, feminist mothers.
And we're living in times of upheavel and real social struggle which gender has nothing to do with. Life's harder than it was and priorities are changing.

Basically, feminism was a playground for our oversubsidised and overpaid spoilt parents and now, with the economy looking so much less attractive(especially to the young who are not time-served), women aren't so keen to shackle themselves to the cubicle. Of course feminism and women's lib were powerful in the 1960s and 1970s, no one did a proper days work in the 1960s and 1970s.
Feminism depends on how rose-tinted your view of the world of work is. Hence you'll still find peppering of student feminists because of this - but for millennials work spells toil with little reward and it has not been this way since the Greatest Generation which won the war. Feminism peaked when we were at our most decadent and uncompetitive.
And it is no coincidence that the majority of failings and greed which caused the great recession in 2008 occurred during the 1990s era of grrl power.

No culture or race in history has experienced a decade as decadent as the 1990s(close second and third for the 60s and 70s). There was never a time where a people lived further beyond their own means. Whenever "something for nothing" becomes the norm feminism is strong.
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