Elisa Mariño
2 min readSep 26, 2022

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Well, the way I see it, some of those women makes us a favor. I mean, if one of those takes one of the traditional men out of the market, it is one of those men hitting on women who are not interested. For me that is peace. hahaha

The problem is when they try to impose their model of relationship on me. Or pass judjement on my relationship. I mean, I do have a few traditional friends. One almost disapeared when married. She is bussy with kids. But she never tried to make us live as she does or critizice us for having different relationships.

On the other hand, I have a friend who dated a man that wanted the traditional arrangement and the man was always complaining about me and my boyfriend because we negotiated important decisions and shared chores at home, etc. Apparently he called my boyfriend an insult that could be loosely translated as "sissy". They ended breaking up. He probably blames me, not consider that my friend wanted a more equal relationship.

As for what is natural, today we do many unnatural things and that is OK. We treat illnesses, we build houses and produce food instead of hunting. And that is perfectly OK. What is clear is that in two generations since women started to be allowed to have their own bank accounts, go to university and work, society has changed for the better. And now we made decisions based on our present situation. Going back is not going to work, because we do already know that the new setting with women having rights works better for both women and children.

At the end of the day, many traditional women have jobs and work outside the home too. And once that happens, other changes might follow. That is why they are trying to persuade women to go back to the stay at home setting. Because once you have a taste of the independence that comes with having your own money, you rarely want to go back to being dependant.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

Written by Elisa Mariño

Fiction is the art to tell lies to show truths. Politics is the art to use truths to tell lies.

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