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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's more than just in literature or movies. From the time I was a teenager, relatives or even random friends of my parents were always asking if I had a boyfriend. By the time I was in law school it was whether I was dating someone I was going to marry. It's one million tiny little messages that say no matter how smart you are, no matter what you're actually interested in, no matter what your career, your community is judging you based on your mate.[/quote]

Where are you from? I'm from a South Asian immigrant community and even for us, that's not the case any more. Women are required to have degrees, careers and income. If they don't for whatever reason, society looks down upon them. They don't have a choice, whether they want to or not. [/quote]

I am surprised by that too. I keep seeing that women say they grew up in environments where all the messages were that the only worth or value a woman has is as a wife and mother. I have no idea where they grew up as that is foreign to me! I grew up in a very conservative and Christian church and family and even there education and career was encouraged. Yes, people in that environment thought that marriage and family is important (for men and women) but the women were certainly not reduced to that as people.

Women outnumber men in post secondary education so that just doesn't fit with a societal view that women have been raised to be wives and mothers and nothing else. [/quote]

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