Oh for fucks sake, Sae and Ace...
Gender roles have changed, yes. A casual look at the fifties, sixties and seventies can easily reveal a shift in gender roles from a legitimized near-shackled existence into one where women could wear pants and work (obviously under the original conditions that they look sexy -- those no doubt are rescinded now
).
But my sisters didn't play with my Lego Mindstorms. Or learn system administration.
Yet one went on to work for the government and the other is becoming a research physicist.
So much for gender roles and legos...
(June 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: Funny thought.. After 3 days of moving my ex-roomie to her new apartment and my next roomie in with me, assembling my bf's tv-table while he was peeling potatoes didn't seem like such a big deal. It just made me think, is it ok for a dude to make a "sammy", when the girl is doing something considered to be manly stuff?Only if the difficulty of labor is accorded to the person who can do it best. But that's just pragmatism.
(June 2, 2011 at 4:20 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: After all these years, have the gender roles changed; or are they still the same? Am I the only girl that has played with Lego robots sometime in the past?
Gender roles have changed, yes. A casual look at the fifties, sixties and seventies can easily reveal a shift in gender roles from a legitimized near-shackled existence into one where women could wear pants and work (obviously under the original conditions that they look sexy -- those no doubt are rescinded now
).But my sisters didn't play with my Lego Mindstorms. Or learn system administration.
Yet one went on to work for the government and the other is becoming a research physicist.
So much for gender roles and legos...
