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Aug 01, 2022, 11:00 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Originally Posted by unaluna
Things, activities etc arent inherently gender-specific, except for actually making babies. You were allowed and encouraged to do stuff without regard to gender stereotypes. In spite of circumstances like my mother working since i was two years old - very gender non-conforming in our extended family and neighborhood - i was still constricted to gender stereotypes.
So very much "do as i say, not as i do." And you know how that works out!
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What constricted you to gender stereotypes?
Where I grew up gender roles were rigid. Adults were encouraged to stay within those boundaries. If one deviated members of the community made it known. My grandparents didn't seem to care much about conforming. They let me do things that Cree women didn't usually do.
The city is more tolerant than that isolated community in remote northern Canada. Anything goes. I think that is why I stay here, thousands of km from my parents.
I always knew that I did not want to be mother. The idea of getting pregnant disgusted me as a child. It still does. I never had children and don't ever want any. I'm not meant to be a mother.
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