I'm kinda curious if y'all have opinions even tangential to this. It seems like there used to be pride in being an autodidact, while now any education outside of the standard channels is considered illegitimate or "posing."
I'm kinda curious if y'all have opinions even tangential to this. It seems like there used to be pride in being an autodidact, while now any education outside of the standard channels is considered illegitimate or "posing."
No. The diminishing of the female sphere was referring to how the things which are feminine have been reduced from a range of activities to "dress pretty, feel emotions." Sexism is still bad, and they didn't get rid of the female sphere entirely because it is still profitable to push women into a box. That box has simply gotten smaller and more expensive. In a similar way, male roles in society got reduced from a handful to like one, the brutish working man. This is not to say that a working man is inherently brutish, but that that brutishness is what society expects from him. This is why white-color workers like to pretend to be working class very often online or in some mannerisms. Rather than try to remove the idea that everyone can play their own unique role in life, everyone has been shuffled into like 2 roles. You can see the problem.
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Sort of. A lot of the "helpful" parts of the gender divide and associated roles have been removed, so we are left with the rawest, meanest ideas of what it means to be a man or a woman within this framework. This was brought to its apex in the 1950s, and more people are working outside the gender binary or not strictly obeying it, so it could be worse. It's a really complex idea and I am butchering it to make it fit into a comment chain, so it is entirely my fault if this doesn't make sense.