Sunday, January 29, 2012

relationships and gender roles


This past week I started to think about the relationships between people in committed relationships. And it made me wonder if someone in the relationship has to be subordinate to the other. Does one have to be more assertive or more logical rather than emotional? In all types of relationships you see people trying to morph themselves into a mold of what they ought to be.

 Could we have relationships where there were no roles to be played? It seems like in our present society that would be pretty far off. I don’t even know how we would get out of this mind frame. But I guess it would start by having the conversation in the first place. Which takes place in classes like the one we are taking now.
I think we are moving in the right direction in this country. Now more than ever people are being able to be themselves without that added pressure of being forced into a mold.

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