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Most men want a return to traditional gender roles, but women aren’t so sure (19thnews.org)

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think that the gender roles matter as much as having a domestic partner and economy worker partner. Having property, food, clean place, pets, kids, and any sort of landscape that one person can manage while the other person contributes economically helps develop community and neighborhoods.

And one of the reason that we as GenX kids got to run around the community un-tethered was because most of the homes in the neighborhoods had a spouse at home during the day. We could always find some adult if we needed one even if we didn't know the person we could ring a doorbell and someone would likely be there.

Double economy worker partnerships/marriages really destroyed that.

[–] Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org 2 points 3 months ago

One of the reasons you gen x kids got to run around un-tethered was because women weren't even allowed economic independence until the mid 70's... Women couldn't get a credit card or loans without their husbands consent and signature.

Divorce rates didn't spike because of 'feminism' it spiked because women weren't forced to be in unhappy marriages with abusive partners because they literally couldn't exist and survive outside of the financial dependency they were forced to endure.

I'm technically gen X myself (79)... right at the end of it. So I've never lived in a world where that was a thing. Why some men still think that women need to be tied to the kitchen sink only shows their own fears and ignorance... they're afraid of becoming irrelevant in society after centuries/millennia of repressing women to possessions... that's pretty fucking sick.