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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by plain milyeh: [QB] so, this is something i've been thinking about for a while now. i was just wondering if anybody else had any thoughts on the matter... it seems to me like standard gender roles (at least in mainstream western society) limit the freedom of both sexes in different ways. women are basically allowed to exhibit emotional humanity--it's not that big a deal when we cry, and it's normal for us to be affectionate with friends without it taking on sexual implications--but physically, we are expected to disguise some pretty normal human-type stuff--the fact that we grow body hair, for example. men, on the other hand, aren't supposed to be as open, emotion-wise, but they aren't generally expected to pretend their bodies don't do all those body things... so are these inverted social freedoms *just* a mainstream western thing? are they coincidental, or is there a reason things have stacked up this way? has anybody read any books that touch on this idea in more detail? i'd love to get more thoughts on it from anyone who has 'em, in a book or on scarleteen... [/QB][/QUOTE]

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