Lately, I've come across quite a few Christians who seem to have truly bought into many gender stereotypes. They seem to be almost comforted by the boundaries they've created between what men do and what women do, what men are and what women are by default. This isn't going to be a post in which I rant about these attitudes, though. I simply want to understand them.
Where is the benefit in assuming that all men are X and all women Y? Is there something I'm not getting here?
Labels: Gender Issues
I think that it is human nature to sort and categorize people. I also think that it is something that we need to resist.
There is an agenda among complimentarian/gender hierarchalist types, as well. If they can categorize men and women according to appropriate personality characteristics, they can more easily justify their position.
Since there are two genders, I think it is easier to fall into "either/or" polarizing stereotypes, when men and women as individuals are a lot more complex than folks would like to admit.