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Originally Posted by albania
I don't know, I don't think it's just me, but I was raised to protect the people and things I loved. I don't quite understand the impetus to be comforted by a stuffed animal. Isn't shouldering things and just sucking it up and dealing part of the biological(maybe social) imperative that all men have? Wouldn't it seem logical that in a large number of cases if you're expressing behavior that's not generally seen in your gender then it's probably not healthy? Women, on the other hand, generally grow up with stuffed animals. Most women I know like to hug things and people when they're sad or lonely or just in general. Therefore, it doesn't seem particularly peculiar to me that they should keep stuffed animals even in adulthood.
Abaya, yes I see your post, but was just wondering out loud since other women had also posted.
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Ah, stereotypical gender roles. If they applied to mine and my husband's relationship, I'd be the man, and he'd be the woman.
I work more than he does; he spends more time raising Son. He is a cuddler and touchy feely; I am not. He prefers (not always, but more than me) "lovemaking" and foreplay; I do not. He is into expressing his feelings and problems; I clam up and don't care to discuss things like that. When a decision has to be made, I usually make it, not him. Hubby has a stuffed monkey that I bought him when we first started dating. He doesn't sleep with it or anything, but he still has it 11 years later.
Despite him "expressing behavior not generally seen his gender", he is definitely masculine, manly, "normal", or however you want to label him, and I am womanly, feminine, "normal", and whatever. Here's to hoping that gender roles go the way of the dinosaurs.