Of course people still go by traditional gender roles, I think here one needs to add word ‘vast majority’ still go by traditional gender roles. Our ancestors did and no hell broken. No sky fell off.
but the point is that they do not have to any longer.
You cannot make that assumption any more. It is something that needs to be discussed and agreed upon, rather than taken for granted.
My humble queston remains.. WHY?
Why is so dire need now? Did traditional role cause such a big problem to humankind? Can this be elaborated further?
In different ways. It is no longer clear cut or absolute.
Let me get clear here.
In the context of homosexuality as the topic. Are you for or against it?
And if for it, then are you proposing that since somehow the roles are being blurred in some straight families, there is a need for revisitng those roles altogether,… and it then is OK, that homosexuals be assigned various male/female kind of roles?
The point IS that SOME people believe it, which means you can’t assume things one way or another.
There is no assumption. Men’s role is still defined and women’s role is no assumption either.
Sometimes they overlap but by large there is no confusion among men and women what they are suppose to do based on their gender.
At times it might be OK that woman earns and man stays home to do SOME household chores but those are demands from particular unusual situations, not norm as you also pointed out.
Still that does not call for a re-evaluation of whole concept.
Simply because you can not assume, without discussion.
Among indvidual straight families you mean? Then it is fine.
That’s not to say one is abandoning traditional roles;
OK. Concur.
rather, that each family has to decide for themselves what the roles will be. Got it.
And it has to be addressed. A woman should not assume that a man will earn more money than she does, just as he should not assume that she will pick up after him. But it can/does still happen, of course
Agreed.
Nope, that’s not what I said at all. Please see above.
I did. And agreed to some of your points there.
I’m not sure which societies and which norm and which inclinations you are referring to.
The societies which comprises of people who were/are stable with tradtional gender roles.
Instability is borne out of uncertainty.
What uncertainity. I think you are saying again in the context of straight couples who have one or both members want to assume or see opposite member to assume a change in the traditional gender role.
So this does not pertain to homosexuality at all if I am correct in analysis of your posts.
Please explain further how it relaed to homosexuality. To me that is not such a big reason to revisit the traditional roles.
When change occurs, and it DOES and HAS occurred, I beg to differ. Men are men and women are still women with their traditional roles accepted by majority humankind.
there is bound to be questions about how it will affect our daily lives. The point is that even if one wants traditional gender roles or a traditional family structure, one needs to make sure that one’s partner wants it as well.
OK. In the context of a straight couple at times it needs to be done. 