From the point of view of media writing about her it matters naught if Taylor had children or if her valued family role was that of daughter and sister alone. Specifics are trumped by expectations in any case.
Your belief of the questionable value of chasing one’s dreams is clear.
I wonder how divergently male and female military or first responder deaths in the line of service are reacted to?
I don’t know what you mean.
What’s your hypothesis? You know mine.
Not sure what you don’t understand. Media reports are based on the biases inherent in her being a woman. Who she was as a real person can often get trumped by that. Moreover a woman is often placed in the expectation of being a major family value person even as daughter and sister, more than a man is even as father and husband.
My WAG is that in service we are at point that both are reported with equal levels of heroism and tragic loss for military and first responder loss but that the impact on their families will be highlighted more for the women.
I didn’t understand how you what wrote connected with what I said; the above is clearer.
Yes, women tend to get the “beloved member of the family” edit more than men. But in no culture am I aware of are daughters and sisters valued more than fathers and sons.
This book suggests there are gender differences in how military deaths are portrayed.
In the book Bogeys and Bandits, it is narrated how, in the 1990s, some male fighter pilots in the Navy were angered because the death of a female fighter pilot got a lavish funeral and far more official organizational ceremony than the death of male pilots. Not sure if that is still the case.
If someone has a life’s passion or calling or life’s work, then I don’t see why they should be required by any system of morality or ethics or values, to give it up just because they have smilies, regardless of their sex or other classification.
That’s of course balanced against the social utility of that life’s passion. Climbing MojntbWvwrwat has clearly become something detrimental to the the local environment. Bug that has nothing to do with people’s children.
But children grow up in all kinds of circumstances. I don’t think they are owed a parent who never takes risks to accomplish things just so they can remain alive.
The existence of a person with a parent who died in ēs childhood—whether by accidental circumstance or to pursue a goal—might be in itself an experience that creates value in society.
Expecting someone to give up a dream is one thing. Lauding someone for not giving up a dream—even when pursuing that dream leads to their untimely demise and provides no extrinsic benefit to anyone else—is another.
But this looks like a hijack so no more from me on this.
It’s not a tautology. If you assign leadership and decision making traits to masculinity, you are setting up barriers to certain roles for people who aren’t masculine, aren’t considered sufficiently masculine or aren’t interested in masculinity even if they are capable of them.
“It doesn’t matter if you are a woman” only in a society that doesn’t consider those traits to be not feminine or even anti feminine traits, and that’s not the society we live in.
As soon as you define any positive trait as masculine, you create a problem for everyone who can’t be or doesn’t want to be perceived as masculine.
That’s an interesting anecdote. Also interesting is that notion that you apparently don’t (didn’t) find that a remark that infantilizes women* to be insulting.
*(which is how I would characterize an implication that to be “womanly” one must “act [sufficiently] like a little girl”)
Because they’re assholes that make the decisions that affect your life, for one?