Gender wars

Gender wars very much do exist in modern day society. Whether it's as simple as toys we play with as a child, roles we are expected to fill in our lives, or hiring for corporate jobs gender is always coming up. Most of these you could settle under the topic of gender expectations but gender wars also exist as well. I feel like the wars do exist, but really not to the extent that some might think. For example in the job scenario, If you see more upper level corporate jobs being filled by males, I think that there probably really just are more males applying for that position. It would be interesting to look into statistics, but I really don't see it as being a huge issue due to the amount of lawsuits you see about sexism in the workplace. But that goes to say that they do exist since there are lawsuits happening but also that when sexism happens, there is something you are able to do about it.

Personally I don't think that I have been affected negatively by gender wars thus far. Maybe being a female in a heterosexual relationship for 5 years has had some influence there and maybe even the fact that I grew up in a household where my mom was a stay at home mother of 4 and filled the “housewife” role. My dad was the one who worked to provide for the family so I think I just come from a kind of old fashioned family and maybe I don't see so many men in the workplace as a threat since I'm not completely against women filling the stay at home role. It may not be for me personally but a lot of women and men would prefer such a thing. I've grown up feeling that men and women are equal and that you can aspire to do anything that you want regardless of sex.

I don't think that the war metaphor is necessarily dangerous but I think it can be misleading. The term was implied that the two are completely against each other but this is not really the case. If male and female were against each other that the majority wouldn't be marrying each other and having babies. Homosexuality would be the norm. I think that it is a war though in the sense that some are having to fight the stereotypical expectations that are sometimes placed upon people. There are still so me people out there that insist that the man work and the woman stay home and take care of kids that must be had. You really could branch off and think of 1000 different way that these wars exist and such endless examples are proof that there is indeed a war of some kind.