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The Homer-fication of Men
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First all the men were asked to hold a weight of 6KG, to represent the weight of the baby their wives were carrying. The assumption being that these poor, hopeless men lacking in any empathy or intelligence or compassion, could not possibly understand women's burden unless patronised in this way.
Next we were asked to represent our normal day's activities pre and post baby on a chart that split the day by hours.
Men and women were given separate bags with separate (quite gender stereotyped) activities to fill up the day/chart with. After setting out our day on the chart with the only activities at our disposal, the men were then reprimanded for not appreciating the burden of work the women were responsible for pre and post baby, and asked to give suggestions on how they could help their wives more. These poor hopeless Homers, if not given this instruction, would presumably have spent their time sleeping in, playing golf and going to the pub, leaving their wives to deal with looking after the child and house?
Now sometimes this phenomena evokes images in me of the feminist lost soldier, fighting in the jungle long after the war is won against my father's generation that was kept at arms length from maternity matters. 'We've still got a long way to go' is their usual catch-cry.
But if you look at Marge and Lisa vs.. Homer and Bart, I think there are a lot of women who identify with this depiction of men. I wonder what the effect it will have for boys and girls being brought up with this image of women as the intelligent, compassionate, virtuous creatures, trying their hardest to help the juvenile, self centred, irresponsible and lazy men they must endure.
In a world where women are brought up being told they can have everything and 'you're worth it', men are constantly told they don't measure up.