Data and Surveys Show "Men are Stuck" in Gender Roles
Not often seen in stereotypically female roles
Brent Kroeger pores over nasty online comments about stay-at-home dads, wondering if his friends think those things about him. The Rowland Heights father remembers high school classmates laughing when he said he wanted to be a "house husband." He avoids mentioning it on Facebook.
"I don't want other men to look at me like less of a man," Kroeger said.
His fears are tied to a bigger phenomenon: The gender revolution has been lopsided. Even as American society has seen sweeping transformations — expanding roles for women, surging tolerance for homosexuality — popular ideas about masculinity seem to have stagnated.
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You are debased, degenerate pieces of shit; yes, let's destroy everything good in the world just for the hell of it. The remnants of masculinity are all that stands between you and a return to the dark ages, which we would have *never* escaped without that "traditional masculinity" you nihilistic faggots love to snark about.
Save the alpha males!