The Division of Labor (2020) 그림 Edwin Loftus 로

There is a general difference between men and women and the roles they seek and though it is good that those roles have been challenged, fanatics with agendas have become too prominent in that challenging. In this image, man and woman stand together, beneath the same sun, each bearing half of the same carrying pole. At the woman's end, hangs an infant. At the man's end, fish and game. The woman is turned toward ancient world tools for the preparation of food and the making of cloth. The man is turned toward tools for construction, a water pump and a symbolic framework. The beginnings of a stone wall, the type that happened when land was cleared for agriculture, can also be seen. Each is turned in their different direction, but both look back toward their partner, gaining strength from their support and contribution.
That is an ideal that isn't always true. some women would rather be builders and hunters, some men would rather be cooks, weavers and child raisers. The best arrangement would allow all to pursue their preferences and not try to force them into roles that don't fit. But neither would it deny them the roles that do fit, even if those seem to support this male-female division of labor.
Unfortunately, there is a trend today that attempts to do so. It tries to defeminize women and demasculinize men. This doesn't seem to be the primary goal. They seem to want to liberate the genders. But they do so by denying what may be the natural tendencies for most of them. In not wanting to lead boys and girls that do not follow traditional interests, we must not deny the boys and girls that do, their opportunities to observe role models, learn tested standards, etc. If we do, we discriminate against more humans, not fewer. This isn't an easy solution to find, but we have become a less violent species in civil intercourse over the centuries and losing that progress because we no longer teach males the ideals of masculinity and females the ideals of femininity will be a tragedy dwarfing all others.

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