2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Coulter Repeats What is Becoming Obvious to the GOP: They Don’t Want to Run Against Bernie [View all]Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Just because you were never told that before is irrelevant. The whole notion of a relationship having a boss is heteronormative, and rooted in patriarchal structures. Some try to preserve the structure, while some try to seem like they are progressive when they say sometimes the woman gets to be the man.
You keep saying "women wear pants now" as if that makes anything better. As if you should be given a cookie for not being a complete jerk about what women wear, ignoring that women have always worn pants. You are also ignoruling the implication that her husband is not wearing the pants (and to be clear, because this is Bill we're talking about, that he is wearing the skirt) The term has always (even when you were a wee lad (lass?)) Been a pejorative against men, and by extension, against women. It's saying that the man is, like i stated above, taking the woman's role and wearing a skirt, while the woman is acting bossy.