RE: What (in your society) is a 'real man'?
September 8, 2023 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2023 at 1:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that the definition of real men and women that we're talking about boils down to providing poles for the range of coping and parenting skills we think might need to be on hand. For example, the protecter/nurturer split boils down to how people are not generally incentivized to admit wrongdoing or misgivings to any disciplinarian agent in their life. Whether that's mom and dad, or the fuckin cops. So if dad, say, is the one in the business of handing out the timeouts - that would negatively impact any need the child might have to express those concerns or talk about those actions to a loving and punitively impartial audience. Basically, if you're good at dad-ing, in this regard, you're going to be bad at mom-ing, and vv. It's a practical solution to a labor distribution and specialization problem.
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