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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can flip that around and suggest that it's normal and accepted for men to put effort into a hobby as a mental release, and this should be perfectly fine for women as well, but sometimes it's not amd they are in the past seen as weird, abnormal, or hysterical for having interests.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

But it isn't normal and accepted for men to put effort into a hobby? It is common and clichéd to mock men endlessly for their interests? Like in this very post?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

amd they are in the past seen as weird, abnormal, or hysterical for having interests.

I don't think it's ever been considered more weird, abnormal, or hysterical to crotchet as a gal than it has been to build bottle ships for guys. That is, sure, there's been lots of BS around the type of hobby, it not being "gender-adequate", but women not allowed to have hobbies? At all? What? Being too poor to have hobbies, sure, but that again is not a gendered thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

don't let reality get the way of the 'man = bad woman = good' narrative.

women have always had hobbies and been hobbiest, at least among the upper classes. just as men have.

and the poor women had to work to the bone, just like the poor men.