Lober Gender Roles

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Lober had a very interesting article that I enjoyed. Lober believed that we have become so use to the same roles that some people are not willing to accept people changing there roles. Although in past years we have seen more of a change in gender roles then ever before. We still have issues with excepting people doing oposite sex types of things. I believe we have already moved twards fixed gender roles just like Lober believes. We are so fixed in what people should be that we look at a man wanting to be a women or even the oposite as a negative thing. Even a man taking on the role of a mother in a household and a mom going out and working to provide for their family its still not

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