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Can't win with some people (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth

"I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both"

Chastised by some, loved by others, it depends a lot on the audience. I think overall though women have been given more a pass, pegged as 'willfull' or 'impetuous' where as with men it's treated as a flaw that they should be shunned for.

Think of the differing ways that daddy's girl and mamma's boy are perceived to get to what I mean.