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As feminine as a fifties housewife good wife's guide wants women to be?
My grandmother was working for the EPA as an inspector back in the 50's, and took no shit from anyone, so how is that a criticism?
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Is Pocahontas feminine?
Was it normal for underage female American-Indians to be running around in the open while in the nude?
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Elsa?
The first (Missed opportunity for wincest) or second film (Abandons the responsibility of ruling her kingdom, basically being a selfish bitch)?
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Belle?
On the subject of Stockholm syndrome, why is there so many female-oriented romance stories that show the girl getting abused and then falling in live with said abuser?
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Anne Hathaway from Devil Wear's Prada?
I haven't seen that film since I was about ten, and don't even remember it.
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Cruella?
Which version: book, animated, live-action, or "We live in a society"? Only seen the middle two.
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Jasmine?
Well, she was pretty hot in the one episode where she turned into a snake.
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Margery Tyrell? Cersei Lannister? Ellaria Sand? Sansa Stark?
Uh, who? Oh, GoT, sorry I have too many other things to do with my time than read or watch stereotypical pop-culture American fantasy murder porn. Although, I do remember hearing not very nice things about the white-haired girl.
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There's a lot of different feminities.
Tomboy, femdom, gyaru, MILF/ara/Christmas cake, reverse trap, yandere, plain, cute, tsundere, nymphomaniac, all natuale ...
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The ones that never assert themselves and push back in the face of conflict...well they are not necessarily very interesting characters. And it's not always very easy or natural to live in a world where you have to defer to others and accommodate others all the time. And it can be a route that renders you utterly dependent on others and vulnerable to changes in external circumstances.
Yeah, it always suck when you're not the one sitting on a throne. If you question the monarch, and they don't have the slightest bit of humility, you're going to find yourself being the first one slaughtered when they place you on the front lines.
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Feminine wiles used to be most available tool for women, but it's a better tool if you are not utterly dependent on it.
I'm sorry, what? What about the queens that ruled empires through their own merit like Queen Semiramis? Or served as advisors, like Queen Artemisia (Who Xerxes ignored and proceeded to lose 3 million soldiers to 20 thousand philosophers)?
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A lot of working women trying to pursue masculine standards of success are not very satisfied.
Perhaps because men and women have different ideals of what constitutes success? And, there's perhaps more than one way of being successful?
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But in the 70, 80s, a lot of bored suburban housewives weren't either.
In response to the rampant inflation taking place in the U.S. thanks to LBJ's war in Vietnam and all the welfare programs the government was ramming through, a lot of housewives went to work in order to maintain their family's standard of living. In response to this, wages across the board dropped like a rock (Because who could have guessed that doubling the workforce would result in a lower demand of workers) while prices inflated (Because, on top of the rampant spending that devalued the dollar, there were now two sources of household income instead of one).
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Women can lose a lot of social capital and social avenues to move as they get older or if they don't match up to society's expectations of looks and successful feminine personality, regardless of their choices.
Like I asked uselessgoddess, WHERE DOES THIS EVER OCCUR? I've seen cases of women being fired for being competent and feminine, but NEVER for being incompetent and non-feminine.
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Femininity is not the clear path to getting what women want as it is made out to be.
Depends on what you're looking for. If it's money, Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos make it pretty clear how one can get it with ease.
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