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Date Posted: 18:27:47 06/27/07 Wed
Author: David Collins
Subject: Truly Free Personality

Traditional sex roles have been rapidly changing over the past 20 years. In the 1950�s, you would never find a father who would voluntarily stay home with their children. Now, it has become more commonplace to find fathers willingly giving up their �traditional� roles as the breadwinners and taking over more of the domestic duties that their wives used to due. To me, a truly free personality means one that is gender neutral and not affected by what society or a community thinks. To this end, traditional sex roles would not contribute positively to a truly free personality as I have defined it because there would be too much pressure to conform to what the standard is for your gender vs. being neutral about roles and responsibilities.

In my example, the traditional homemaker, the picture of this person that would come to mind first would be one that is female, drives carpool and volunteers at the school for her children. This is a traditional sex role. But, if you followed my definition of a truly free personality, you would not immediately assume that the person was female or did the other things. Your judgment would be based on fact and not a preconceived notion or idea about what is appropriate. So, no, I do not feel that traditional sex roles positively impact a free personality, as I have defined it.

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