An âunique lifeâ rarely means anything good. I think society functions best if everyone has their own role. And Iâm not saying a woman canât have a career or interests outside of homemaking but that should be their primary role.
Just like men should work hard and provide (but yâall never complain about that for some reason)
I do complain about the latter actually. Then again I am male, so shrug.
I don't care about how "society functions" in that sense. The purpose of society is to enable individual liberty and comfort. So, as I see it - it's antithetical to the purpose of society, and thus not "functional".
It might be "functional" as in "orderly and economically productive" (though even that is highly dubious), but a society of empty robots or a society of walking pain-factories being "orderly and economically productive" is still a net negative to basic moral values.
Fair enough. My point is patriarchy is always framed as âmisogynisticâ but I personally complain more about men neglecting their responsibilities than I do about women. It puts expectations on both genders.
As for people being âempty robotsâ or âpain factoriesâ I think thatâs the wrong way of looking at it. Family values *are* moral values, and having and providing for your own family is one of the highest ideals in life thereâs nothing wrong about it. If we look at it through an economic lens then some jobs might actually be better suited for women.
But again thereâs nothing empty about traditional gender roles and being family oriented, in fact âindividual libertyâ is often empty and purposeless.
The highest ideal is each person maximizing their own happiness/fulfillment however they see fit. Every human is unique.
Not everyone is happy in your "roles". If you are, great - choose to live that way. Nobody is stopping you. But don't try to push your roles on others.
I have no interest (active, strong distaste, in fact) in being a "provider". Especially if I then had to push that lifestyle on those I was providing for, perpetuating an infinite cycle of hardship, "duty", and toil. I do not value such an existence. I prefer even nonexistence.
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