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“Mrs.” originally meant “mistress,” marking rank and wealth. “Mr.” meant “master,” not marital status.
Before the late 19th century, heterosexual men wrote passionate letters, embraced, held hands, and sat on one another’s laps.
Unilateral divorce in 1970 brought five-year divorce surges, 20% lower wives’ suicide rates, and domestic-violence declines of roughly 25% to 50%.
Until the late 19th century, manhood meant outgrowing childhood. Then rejecting anything feminine became proof of masculinity.
The idea that women always handled emotional labor while men struggled with it is a historical myth.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, class shaped emotional labor more than gender, with men serving upper-class households.
The 1950s gender script was not timeless: women became domestic mothers and men less emotional breadwinners over decades.
The federal government does not practically incentivize marriage or parenthood. Claims that it does blame people for poverty and insecurity.
Billionaires and financiers joined people threatened by racial and gender equality, using family nostalgia to roll back New Deal reforms.
In less democratic societies, women are less likely to believe they cannot be strong, authoritative, or capable of hard work.
Every society divides people as male and female, yet assigns radically different roles. Gender rules are not fixed.
Gender history is liberating: men and women have not always followed today’s script, and neither must you.
Democracy promises universal human rights, yet exclusion forces societies to invent excuses for treating some people as lesser.
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