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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have boys and know a lot of other families of boys. Our kids make beds, help unload the dishwasher, take out the trash, fold laundry, scrub toilets, etc. same as I would expect a daughter.

I don’t doubt the studies, but I think they’re old and imagine don’t apply to more highly educated households aware of gendered stereotypes. Also, in my house DH and I both work. So my boys are growing up to see a mom who has important meetings to get ready for in the mornings and a dad who handles kid sick days and grocery shopping. There is no gender divide here except for when physically necessary ([b]my DH can lift heavier things than me[/b]). [/quote]

You know that's not true, right? I mean, unless you have a back or neck injury that limits you medically, you are capable of being strong enough to lift as much as your husband does. Google female bodybuilders and weight lifters.

I just want us to stay with the science and not the societally imposed gender norms that people get stuck in their minds.

~ longtime single woman by choice who routinely carries big heavy things all by herself despite being an average sized, non body building female of the species [/quote]

Why are you the way that you are? [/quote]

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