Off-Topic Stereotype Observations

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 3625

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:

> my husband, who went to college in the 60s, was shouted down in 
> some sociology class or something when he suggested that it was
> not correct to balance years of male dominance by substutiting 
> female dominance.

Why is it that SEVERAL people have encountered those women who argue 
for female dominance, but *I* never have? I feel left out. 

> His example was topless bars---if it's wrong for men to go and ogle
> scantily clad females, why is it okay for women to go watch male 
> dancers? 

Why is there anything wrong with any adult watching adult erotic 
dancers of their attractive gender, or even not of their attractive 
gender?  

> Even greeting cards: I read a list of "humorous" cards that 
> promoted males as idiots or worse (What do you do when a man says 
> you're smothering him? Push down harder on the pillow); if the 
> gender-roles were switched, they'd be banned.

I have seen similar greeting cards insulting women marketted to men. 
Not banned. "Humor" among married men about wives being nags, 
spendthrifts, fat, etc and among married women about husbands being 
slobs, drunks, lechers, etc goes way, way back, to a time long before 
feminism. I don't like that kind of humor, but I imagine that it 
serves as a relief valve for the pressure that people feel when 
they have to conform themselves to a limited social role (such as the 
manly-man role or the womanly-woman role).