Can relationships limit us?
So much of our culture, including mass media, entertainment and commercial interests, emphasize relationships - pursuing them, celebrating them, making ourselves fit and competitive enough to have a “good” one.
Writer Jessica Valenti thinks “the romantic industrial complex” can be destructive to both men and women, because it reinforces these ill gender roles that position women as only caring about finding a partner as their form of personal fulfillment. … [and] men as the caretakers, as only interested in sex and beer.”
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