Did the opposite also follow; men doing what were considered women's jobs feeling the pressure to be tender?
Where did the “logic” in the logical Mister Spock come from?
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Cybill Shepherd on Moonlighting and Stephanie Zimbalist on Remington Steele. They played their private detective roles as warm-blooded, emotional women with well-rounded personalities.
Probably don't want to go down that rabbit hole!!!!
Emma Peel
I suppose we can add Della Street (played by Barbara Hale) from Perry Mason to that list. Surprised I didn't think of that myself sooner.
The whole point of gender inequality is that it isn't symmetrical, but hierarchical. The assumption was that women were capable of less than men, that their jobs were more menial, less important or respectable. Women pursuing traditionally male jobs were fighting against that prejudice to prove they were capable of the work. Men would have seen traditionally female jobs as beneath them and would have been ridiculed for holding them, so they would have had little incentive to pursue them. If they did take such jobs, e.g. as male nurses, they might feel pressure to act more tough and macho to counteract the perception of effeminacy.
What a lot of people don't understand about toxic masculinity is that it's toxic to men, not just women. The irony is that misogynistic social norms impose tighter strictures on men's behavior than on women's in certain ways, and if men don't act in the specific way the norms demand, they'll be shamed or ridiculed. A woman who manages to prove she's capable of conforming to masculine norms will be rewarded for it, at least to an extent, but a man who doesn't act masculine enough will be penalized for it.
We're pretty sure that's a misreading/misremembering of Roddenberry's 2nd pilot script of "The Omega Glory," where Spock does absorb energy but not through a plate in his anatomy.
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