Gender Roles

[TonyAndonuts]

Do we as the LGBT community still abide by gender roles set by society or do we ignore them? Can someone be gayer than someone else simply because they act in a more feminine manner or does that not matter. I thought this was a pretty good video that talked about that.

[southbiochem]

The thing with gender roles is that they're already changed even in straight couples..

being a stay-home-dad is kinda accepted, and so is a woman having a career...

So if that's happening I would vote for dropping the whole gender role thing all together, why in a gay or lesbian couple one has to be the "man" and the other the "woman"...I don't think its nessecary

Parents and couples nowadays focus more on spliting tasks thatn in specific roles for men and women...I believe gays can both be the "man" and lesbians can both be "woman" and still divide the tasks.

I liked the video and how the subject was discussed, thanks Tony for sharing

[MisterTinkles]

Gender roles change from year to year, century to century, religion to religion, country to country, state to state, city to city, town to town, and family to family.

Back in the 1950's and before that, women who wore pants were looked down upon as being lesbian or "a manly woman". Just because she wore pants! This has changed. Women wear pants all the time now, and nobody even thinks about a woman in pants.

But yet, a man in a dress is something people will run across the street to get away from, make fun of, call him a "fag", or even gets arrested!! And for WHAT?????!!!!! Just wearing a dress.

Women can wear men's clothes, but men cant wear womens clothes without being harassed.
That too will change in the next 50 years.

Pink has always been a girls color. Boys who liked pink were called "fags", made fun of, or ridiculed. That pretty much stopped back in the 1980's when country male singers made pink western shirts popular. Who the hell is gonna call a cowboy a "fag"???? So it was accepted.

This guy is right, you cant expect others to accept you if you are going to pull the same stereotypical shit on other gays, that straights do.

Labels and restrictions are what kills it. Call it gender roles, or call it stereotyping, its all the same thing......labels and restrictions.

[Pix]

Interesting enough pink used to be for boys (represented flush cheeks or something) and blue for girls (something to do with the Virgin Mary) but that changed in I believe the 1940s and I have no idea why.

Oh, and cheerleading used to be for guys. During WW2 when women took over many male positions (and thus pants became more accepted for women as dresses were hazards in the factories back then as they got caught up in dangerous gears) that included cheerleading and women never gave that one back.

[Lilitu]

Interesting enough pink used to be for boys (represented flush cheeks or something) and blue for girls (something to do with the Virgin Mary) but that changed in I believe the 1940s and I have no idea why.

Oh, and cheerleading used to be for guys. During WW2 when women took over many male positions (and thus pants became more accepted for women as dresses were hazards in the factories back then as they got caught up in dangerous gears) that included cheerleading and women never gave that one back.

It's odd how things like that switch, but still end up segregated.

The tradition of Yueju opera in Eastern China was once a male-only art, but in the early 20th century turned into a female-exclusive performance art.

[MisterTinkles]

Interesting enough pink used to be for boys (represented flush cheeks or something) and blue for girls (something to do with the Virgin Mary) but that changed in I believe the 1940s and I have no idea why.

Oh, and cheerleading used to be for guys. During WW2 when women took over many male positions (and thus pants became more accepted for women as dresses were hazards in the factories back then as they got caught up in dangerous gears) that included cheerleading and women never gave that one back.

There is a lot of "flip flopping" throughout history about "gender" things.

It pretty much just depends upon the stigmata that society enforces on itself at that period in time. Sometimes its just because someone "famous" did it, said it, or wore it that changes the flow. Sometimes its religious zealots who change the flow, sometimes its political views, sometimes its fashion. Who knows?

There is no standardization in anything in the USA. Why do you think people are so fucked up mentally? Today its "this", tomorrow its "that"....today its "wrong", tomorrow its "right". There is no consistency in anything people want or say they believe in.