Well..or I should say, I choose a career where I essentially raise other people's kids. LOL.
Hah hah, totally. this reminds me that I heard some weird news item about music teachers today that reminded me of you, but now I forget what it was.
I guess I see the fear of "slipping backward," but my annoyance was not so much that that fear exists as much as the use of the words "strong" and "powerful" in expressing it. Equating the woman-doing-traditionally-manly-things with "strong and powerful" and the woman-doing-traditionally-womanly-things with "weak and powerless" reinforces stereotypes that I don't even see existing in real life, is my beef.
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Date: 2009-01-23 12:56 am (UTC)From:Hah hah, totally. this reminds me that I heard some weird news item about music teachers today that reminded me of you, but now I forget what it was.
I guess I see the fear of "slipping backward," but my annoyance was not so much that that fear exists as much as the use of the words "strong" and "powerful" in expressing it. Equating the woman-doing-traditionally-manly-things with "strong and powerful" and the woman-doing-traditionally-womanly-things with "weak and powerless" reinforces stereotypes that I don't even see existing in real life, is my beef.