Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!ora!daemon From: tjlee@iastate.edu (Lee Thomas Jennings) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Society's view (was Re: Female human aesthetics) Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 02:41:21 GMT References: <9011012313.AA11775@rpp386.Cactus.ORG> <8654@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <658245246@lear.cs.duke.edu> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 21 Approved: ambar@ora.com In smd@lsuc.on.ca (Sean Doran) writes: >Society condemns women who choose not to have a boyfriend or husband. >Society does not condemn men who similarly choose not to have a >girlfriend or spouse. Unfortunately, this is true. And it reminds me -- what about the other way? Does society in general approve of men with girlfriends and women with boyfriends? What does society think about men who are married and have a family? ("He's settled down" or "domesticated.") About women who are married and have a family? (Is it still what they're "supposed" to do?) How about different segments of society? For example, among some, for a woman to get married and have a family is to take the easy way out. This view would anger married women with families! -- * * * * * * * * * Tom Lee | BITNET: TAB47@ISUVAX | Gentleness | "The Lamplighter" | Internet: tjlee@iastate.edu | - is - | IX Iowa State University| or: tab47@ccvax.iastate.edu | strength |