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random wonderings (part 2)
18 September 2007, 5:59pm
here in houston, gender roles are quite different than other places i've been/lived. in public, one very rarely sees people alone— they are almost always in couples. most cars you look in have a guy and a girl. almost as if it's shameful to not be with a special honey. gender roles really fascinate me.
comments
Benji!
[18 September 2007]Gender roles frustrate me.
Kate
[19 September 2007]I really like your use of the term "special honey."
Poppy
[19 September 2007]Would that be "gender roles"? Sounds more like "couples roles." Or maybe "singles shame." I mean, if you saw lots of men w/o women, but no women w/o men, then I'd call it a gender thing, as if to imply a woman is worthless without a man, etc. Houston: codependency capital of the US?
THE Lowly Peon
[19 September 2007]poppy, i suppose you're right. i guess i was generalizing when i said gender roles and in the midst of that generalization i started thinking about this particular subject. either way, gender roles fascinate me, especially when traveling
Lizerbeam
[20 September 2007]gender roles are well pretty well defined here in the south. women are good housewives who gossip a lot and men bring home the money, watch football, drink beer and drive trucks. i think the couples thing goes along with it, too. women, especially, are supposed to have boyfriends or husbands. it's our purpose in life to have babies, you know.
THE Lowly Peon
[20 September 2007]well yeah. and to make dinner. babies and dinner.