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Originally Posted by Lukie
You missed the context of my post.
"In that regard" ... meaning, in terms of sexuality. I wasn't talking in terms of stay-at-home-mums, or the household cleaner, etc...
My context was regarding purely to sexuality, particularly the freedoms women have in being homosexual. Lesbianism, to me, seems like a much more accepted thing than male-male relationships.
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No, I understood what you meant, I just disagreed with the premise.
My point was that the expected female gender role - the stay-at-home-mum, household cleaner stuff - would constiture just as pertinent a pressure on female sexuality as the 'manly', patriarchal, breadwinner stuff on male sexuality. Further, you must say that those social pressures on women are directly related to their sexual freedom and acceptance if the equivalent pressures on men are held to do so.
I don't see how you can say the expectations on men tie into their sexuality and how it is perceived but those on women don't. If men have a 'manly' image to uphold then women have a 'womanly' image to uphold and both those images are of straight people. I also disagree that gay women are more accepted than gay men; there are differences in how the two are perceived but no substantive dichotomy of a lesser or greater prejudice or acceptance.