I can personally attest. Not just from my spouse who is the most nurturing man alive—but from my parents AND my grandparents.
BOTH sets of grandparents! But especially my one grandpa, who was a Christian conservative and used to LITERALLY BRAG about how ‘your grandma never changed a diaper’ and ‘everyone thought I was a widower in this neighborhood at first because they only saw me outside hanging the sheets, never your grandma.’
Sure —there were more defined gender roles. But it wasn’t like they imagine for a lot of people because some men are simply very good at nurturing, and they enjoy it, and they always did it. They just make shit up again and again and again.
I think the point that these men advocating for “traditional” gender roles are profiting off of it is an important one to show why these men are incentivized to spew hate and bs.
I can personally attest. Not just from my spouse who is the most nurturing man alive—but from my parents AND my grandparents.
BOTH sets of grandparents! But especially my one grandpa, who was a Christian conservative and used to LITERALLY BRAG about how ‘your grandma never changed a diaper’ and ‘everyone thought I was a widower in this neighborhood at first because they only saw me outside hanging the sheets, never your grandma.’
Sure —there were more defined gender roles. But it wasn’t like they imagine for a lot of people because some men are simply very good at nurturing, and they enjoy it, and they always did it. They just make shit up again and again and again.
Amen.
I think the point that these men advocating for “traditional” gender roles are profiting off of it is an important one to show why these men are incentivized to spew hate and bs.