the assumption about women is that we should all be looking after our appearance and paying silly sums of money to do so
There are lots of men who spend silly amount of money enhancing their appearances depending on their subculture. Some people like grooming themselves, some other buy expensive watches, expensive clothes, expensive electronic gadgets... En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Migeru:
The "marketplace" has a way of magnifying tendencies in this way.
Where do these tendencies come from? Are they 'natural' tendencies or are people feeling the pressure to conform to societal norms that have been constructed over long periods of time? Why were norms constructed so, what are the roots? By unpacking it all, which is what I am trying to do, can we go back far enough to see that there is perhaps a link to inequality? Gender roles and stereotypes manifest themselves in different and often subtle ways.
I am purely trying to explore this. I don't believe that anything is set in stone. Ad astra per aspera
