Toot

Written by RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist on 2025-02-01 at 02:10

If we set our story in the here-and-now, and pick a milieu that is very familiar to the audience—like high school cramming for finals or the office with an irritating boss or home with the dog and the hubby—the gendered information we need to relay to set up the story becomes nil. No author needs explain what marriage is. No author needs write more than a paragraph of the right words to build a idea of the tension in said marriage, or hint more deeply than having the wife sweat in the car when her husband insists on accompanying her to the gym.

Traditional gender roles need little explanation, nor thanks to a lot of popular media and books, does rebellious gender behavior.

What does the story gain by maintaining traditional gender roles?

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