What are you doing to dismantle sexist stereotypes?

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[–]Lyssa 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I outearn most men. Works well, can recommend. ;-)

Irony is: since that is the case I became more comfortable with e.g. wearing dresses.

[–]Camberian 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm sorry, but what has the one to do with the other?

[–]Lyssa 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Rationally: nothing.

Emotionally I was only ready to wear dresses and admit that I actually like to cook once I had secured my "status" so to speak. As long as I was younger, still figuringing things out and confronted with everybodies expectations I did not touch anything sterotypically female with a ten foot pole. I wish I could say that I always liked what I liked regardless of anybodies expectations but that would just not be true.

[–]Camberian 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah, okay. Thank you for the clarification ;)

Wearing such and such clothing isn't an expression of protest or status for me though. I wear the stuff I am most comfortable in, do the stuff I am most comfortable with, and have always done so. It happens to be slacks, jeans or sweatpants. I also love Centralasian trousers (the very wide ones). I like practical clothes, and most skirts - even wide ones - are not practical for what I tend to do.

I also don't associate cooking with being feminine. I like to cook and expect everyone to be able to prepare basic meals, whether male or female. It's a basic human ability and necessity.

What I probably mean to say is, that I come at all this from a completely different angle. I was never prescribed anything because of my sex, as I still grew up in an area and era where that wasn't usual for progressives (and my parents were such, and atheists as well). I simply picked what felt best and most useful for me. Which sort of explains why I have trouble with the extreme gendering going on these days.

[–]Lyssa 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks, now I understand your question better!

I come from a working class background where most women were housewives or earning a few bucks at the side at most. I knew I did not want that and I knew I wanted to go to university. While my parents supported me as much as they could, I had to find my way largely on my own and for the longest time I did that in a kind of "guy mode". :-)