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2naSalit

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2. It's been ingrained...

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Tue Jan 13, 2026, 06:17 PM

Jan 13

For a very long time here in the US. In junior high school, for instance, girls have home economics classes where they learn to be a 'homemaker' and boys have shop classes where they learn to be manly men and make stuff with tools. If the boys were taught the same classes in home economics and the girls were taking shop classes too, things would be different.

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A school for husbands. How Senegal is reshaping gender roles [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 13 OP

It would be a benifit to society for American men to have some training in this as we have domestic Stargazer99 Jan 13 #1

It's been ingrained... 2naSalit Jan 13 #2