• Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    9 months ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth

    “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both”

    Chastised by some, loved by others, it depends a lot on the audience. I think overall though women have been given more a pass, pegged as ‘willfull’ or ‘impetuous’ where as with men it’s treated as a flaw that they should be shunned for.

    Think of the differing ways that daddy’s girl and mamma’s boy are perceived to get to what I mean.