Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?

[Catholic_Lady]

People can be however they wanna be. If a woman wants to work while the man stays home to care for the baby, that should be completely fine and acceptable. However, just because people should be allowed to do what they want, doesn't take away the fact that yes, most often the woman will stay home while the man works. Most often, women are smaller and softer while men are taller and stronger. Most often, women will be preschool teachers, and men will be pilots.

This is because, while there are exceptions and those exceptions are totally fine, men and women *are* different. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging this fact. There's no reason to try to change it or to try to pass off like we're homogeneous.  

...And so I voted NO.    

Now, let the outrage begin lol.

No outrage but I think you're basically disagreeing with yourself.  In the first sentence your saying if a woman wants to work while the guy stays at home then that's fine, so therefore they are challenging gender stereotypes and you're saying it's fine.

I think the question is worded just a little strangely really.

It's sort of like asking should women ever be more aggressive than some men.  The answer would be yes definitely sometimes but no not all the time and it doesn't really matter what the answer is because sometimes some women will be more aggressive than some men whether they should be or not.

An example I though of when thinking about this question is my work place, we're a bunch of security guards only 2 females and around 15 males, and pretty much the most respected guard is one girl who we all call the head guard.  She has amazing knowledge of the site, great memory, organization. All the male guards whether they're muslim, Christian, black white brown whatever, respect her.  No one's going to say well we have to remove her from the job for challenging gender stereotypes because, you know, gender stereotypes.

But yeh I am against challenging gender stereotypes just for the sake of it, I don't think a woman should try and play football to challenge gender stereotypes, she should do it because she enjoys the sport/shes good at the sport.

Yes, I agree with all this.