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- From: zen@death.corp.sun.com (d)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: phrases and sex roles
- Date: 21 Jan 93 12:42:37
- Organization: savage hackers
- Lines: 33
- Message-ID: <ZEN.93Jan21124237@death.corp.sun.com>
- References: <16B5B9FC9.ESMITH@SUVM.SYR.EDU> <1993Jan19.194712.20454@news.columbia.edu>
- <MUFFY.93Jan19153402@remarque.berkeley.edu> <C17HC3.K5t@world.std.com>
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- In-reply-to: smoir@world.std.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:26:26 GMT
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- In article <C17HC3.K5t@world.std.com> smoir@world.std.com (Scott A Moir) writes:
- > 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.
-
- The two main stereotypical roles still exist; as you say, they are
- just cut into smaller pieces (assuming everyone does contribute.) Quite
- often, though, from what I have seen, you still have the participants
- falling into one of the two roles... you might have two people in a more
- typically male role (breadwinner, etc.), and one in the stereotypical
- female role (housewife, etc.), or whatever, but they often still won't
- cross the artificial boundries.
-
- > >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.
-
- It seems that you're saying that you think it is fine (or potentially
- so) for two people to try to fit into these roles, and it's only a
- problem if you try to fit that model to a three party relationship -- if
- so, she was saying the same thing -- that it was detrimental in
- multi-person relationships... (3 person is multi-person, obviously) so I
- don't know why you were saying that, unless you're just disagreeing with
- the first point. In any case, I think trying to shoehorn yourself into
- what someone else thinks is a good idea of how a relationship ought to
- be is a Bad Thing (tm.)
-
- -- d
-