Reply #231: The value of things [View All]

[Nikia]

I suppose that you are going to say that although these "masculine" activities are valued by money and status that members of the society privately and emotionally value the "feminine" activites just like the whole man working outside the home and woman taking care of the household having equal but different value. I am trying to look at that way for a moment but I don't think that I buy it.
With my parents, there isn't a nice dicotomy like that. Don't we tend to think in dicotomies. I guess that things are more complicated than that. Maybe that was your point, but why have the masculine/feminine dicotomy to begin with. Why shouldn't we celebrate the diversity of traits within individuals rather than saying men are generally a certain way and women are generally an opposite way and people should deny the aspects of themselves that aren't gender appropriate? Why can't people be who they want to be? American society is suppose to be about the rights of the individual regardless of their status at birth, isn't it?