Category Archives: Gender Roles

A Father Who Became a “Tool”

How the world is, SEXIST, due to gender stereotypes, translated… Because there are the multiple options of status of life, there are more and more choices for marriages.  Mothers and fathers can raise their children up alone on their own, … Continue reading

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Do What You Love, Between a Husband & a Wife

Guess that she should be, grateful to him, for allowing her, to do what she wants to do with her own life, as in the traditional Asian societies, the men are, the skies we women, live under!  Translated… I’d known … Continue reading

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An Alternative Sort of Long-Term Care

Her mother became, the primary “caretaker”, the “go-to woman”, for her paternal grandmother’s caretaking needs, translated… I bear witness to, an alternative kind of long-term care every single day. A phone call, it’d made my mother, drop everything all at … Continue reading

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Why do the Happily Ever Afters All End in Marriage?

You gotta wonder, I mean, why do all those stereotypical, happily ever afters of those told, retold, and retold, retold, over, over, over, over, over (you get the picture, don’t you???) again stories all end in marriages? Does that mean, … Continue reading

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The Gap Between the Father & Son

The general problems of fathers and sons, stemmed from how men are, socialized, and this father was, willing to change his ways, more or less, translated… For a Father’s Day Special, I had the hard-to-come-by opportunity, to interview pairs of … Continue reading

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Enslaved by This Marriage…

Damn it, should’ve READ the FINE prints before I’d, S-I-G-N-E-D, on this “dotted line”… Enslaved by this marriage, I was, and, I’m not happy ‘bout it, but, seeing how, you’d brought home the pay, and crawl BACK into MY bed … Continue reading

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The Princesses Who NEVER Sleep at Night

An alternative on the stories of princesses and princes here, translated… Almost all girls listened to the stories of the fairytale princesses while growing up, and there would be a Prince Charming who loved the princesses dearly, and no matter … Continue reading

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Miniscule Matters, a Short Prose

How much a woman CAN take and took, versus what a man can withstand, and you all still, PALED by comparison, to ALL of US!!! Translated… “That woman looked JUST like my ex.” “How did you and your ex break … Continue reading

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The Myths about “Just Say No”

On the gender differences of what “no” means, and the interpretations of what “no” means for both sexes, translated… The golden advice for sexual assault prevention is probably the most important: respect others, protect oneself, say NO.  Whether it be … Continue reading

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When a Little Boy Gets Banned from School for Having His Hair Too Long…

Yeah, uh, whatever happened to, allowing our children, to EXPRESS themselves in their own ways, huh???  And, who was it again, that PREACHED about allowing our young children, to BE themselves???  This is a TRUE story, summarized, by me… A … Continue reading

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