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- From: smoir@world.std.com (Scott A Moir)
- Subject: Re: phrases and sex roles
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <16B5B9FC9.ESMITH@SUVM.SYR.EDU> <1993Jan19.194712.20454@news.columbia.edu> <MUFFY.93Jan19153402@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:26:26 GMT
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- In article <MUFFY.93Jan19153402@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.194712.20454@news.columbia.edu> jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
- >>In article <16B5B9FC9.ESMITH@SUVM.SYR.EDU> ESMITH@SUVM.SYR.EDU writes:
- >>>In article <MUFFY.93Jan18235429@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- >>>muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:
- >>>>Further on sex roles: doesn't the notion of two roles per relationship
- >>>>get in the way of multi-person relationships?
- >
- >>>>OK, I don't want to start an argument but it appears you're assuming
- >>>there are two roles per relationship.
- >
- >>Um... It looked to be as if Muffy was *questioning* the notion that there
- >>are two roles per relationship, not *assuming* it as a given.
-
- There are two roles in a realtionship.. a -two person- relationship. There
- are the same number of roles as there are people. There are also a generic
- set of tasks that are required to run a household, and those tasks get
- split up among the respective members. Because the default in our society
- is a relationship of two, it sort of falls into the 'two-role-model'.
-
- >Yup. More generally, I believe that these roles *exist*; they are
- >defined by our society. It seems to me that, even in a two-person
- >relationship, these roles are somewhat oppressive, and that in
- >multi-person relationships, the acceptance of these two roles as being
- >"the parts of a relationship" is actively detrimental.
-
- It would be detrimental only if you attempted to apply a two-person model
- to a three person relationship. I don't think that this is as much a
- problem for the people in a poly relationship as it is for people outside
- trying to look inside and understand. Especially if they aren't poly.
-
- Scott
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