Lemmie wrote:6e! Welcome back. Where have you been? We need people to give more f**ks around here, and you certainly do not disappoint.
(Just one tiny note, though, be sure to read ALL the words in a quote, especially THE LAST TEN, it helps in getting the point. )
Lemmie -- I don't know what to tell you. In my personal experience men and women are generally different and if a father recognizes a general difference between his own sons and daughters, then God bless him for being observant. Yes, it's stupid to paint with broad brushes and then draw unwarranted conclusions from stereotypes. But it is equally foolish to ignore reality. If Oaks knows that his daughters' are particularly sensitive about an issue, he's being a good dad in being careful how that issue is addressed.
We all know that specific social constructions are BS in that they have no inherent, objective reality. And we all know that social constructs about gender tell us that men need to be emotionally "strong" for the emotionally "weak" females. But that didn't change the fact that at my father's funeral it was my brother and I pretending to be strong while our sister was outwardly grieving. Social construction or not, that's how it was. Same thing in marriage. I usually take out the trash and mow the lawn. My wife usually cooks dinner. None of this is an indication that we are the brink of a Handmaid's Tale-style dystopia.
ETA: Of course, if we really want to spice our marriage up, sometimes my wife mows the lawn while I cook dinner.
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