Mephistia Archive

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2	TIL men should avoid doing something nice when it involves helping a child Yeah, it's a simplified answer. The whole idea of women as natural nurturers designed by god to take care of families and raise children really started being promoted around that time, though. It was the whole "men are designed this way, women are designed this way, and to go against this design is unnatural." A good resource is Stephanie Coontz's book Marriage, a History -- she's discussing (obviously) the history of marriage, but in explaining the various social changes that led to love becomi…	/r/MensRights	06/05/12 10:25 PM
3	TIL men should avoid doing something nice when it involves helping a child Is it the media that's fucking up people's minds? edit: as an add-on, I have to say that in my personal experience, it's only women who have given me the death-stare or blatantly asked my if I was the father of my nephew/niece, never a man. I think it's a result of the Victorian-era ideas regarding gender divisions of men and women, ie: women are supposedly natural nurturers, homemakers, and non-sexual while men are natural businessmen and politicians and driven by their sexual urges. Even in to…	/r/MensRights	06/05/12 06:04 PM