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The focus of this discussion is on a debate about gender roles. Two separate authors make their claims about the difficulties genders face. Grabmeier thinks social expectations fall more heavily on women. Faludi counteracts by arguing in the contemporary setting men have lost more and experience more barriers to fulfillment. Here are a few questions to consider.

  1. Do you believe the main idea in the article that women experience more stress than men because they are more likely to live in poverty, to face abuse, to have less money, and to live with ideals of physical perfection?
  2. If one side of the article argues that women suffer more, the other side argues that men suffer more than women. Men want to feel dutiful, protective, and to adhere to traditional social roles with precision. Yet, in the contemporary social arrangements, men feel isolated, powerless, dominated, ineffective, and out of control because they are losing cars, jobs, homes, and families. Aren’t these sufficient reasons to claim they suffer more than women in this debate of gender divide?
  3. Should we make comparisons of who "suffers" more? Don’t stereotypes and expectations of a gender wound all of us? Can you think of a female stereotype/expectation that harms men and, viceversa, of a male stereotype/expectation that harms women?

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