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Originally posted by BlueTimberwolf
Gender roles and sex go hand and hand, you can't have one without the other. The fact that women bear children determines a lot of it, and I don't see how that can change.
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I think that we're well past the point, as an intelligent society, of basing all our social interaction on biological reproduction. Gender roles have very little to do with sex in modern times. The issue isn't whether gender roles served a useful purpose at some point in human history, but rather it is whether gender as a construct should
continue to be utilized in human interaction. A woman can still contribute to society in certain ways while pregnant and earn a living, and a man no longer needs to be the "breadwinner" when women today are just as capable. While women bearing children cannot biologically change, the notion that pregnancy and motherhood incapacitate a woman with regard to "labor" and societal contribution
can change.