• IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Attacked for being the “wrong kind of straight couple”? I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but I don’t know that I’ve seen any actual attacks for that. Plenty of people preaching that women should stay home in the kitchen or whatever, but on average, social media alone has tipped that scale, I think.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      6 months ago

      On that particular scale, there are heterosexual relationships in which women are not just fully emancipated, but actually leading the relationship, serving the role of a main provider etc. Those are often referred to as either female-led relationships (FLR) or gender role reversal.

      Women in such relationships are often mistreated and misunderstood, and men are outright harrassed and attacked for their choice to take a “weaker” side, for their “feminity”, they are, at best, seen like a burden, and at worst, seen as a punchbag for “not being a man”. I’ve very much seen both in my culture, and for all I know, in other places there are signs of something similar.

      In media, at least from what I’ve seen, such relationships are almost universally portrayed as an unhappy woman and a broken, emasculated, capricious man, as something unhappy and dysfunctional.