Thursday, December 2, 2010
Is it possible that most if not all women are born to be mothers in some way. It seems that in all the books we have read and I am sure that it is true with many other women characters in other books as well. It seems that no matter what situation they are put in women tend to be the ones to save the child, or try to save her crew members, or teach a child to live and learn properly. Is it possible that women are hard wired to protect, teach, and care for others? Are men capable of the same acts of protecting the people they care about, helping those individuals weaker then themselves, and teaching those who need teaching. Is it not possible that compaction and the desire to help and protect others is a human trait and not just a female trait despite how it is often portrayed. I think often men are suppose to be the strong, unfeeling ones and the women are suppose to be the caring, loving ones but I think it is unfair to always place a women in the maternal roll and realize that men are able take on the caregiver roll as well. Women must carry and give birth to a child but that does not always mean that they are the most qualified to be the care giver in every situation.
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I couldn't agree more. I really can not think of any examples right now of men in the novels being the care giver. Men are perfectly cabable of having motherly or more like fatherly instincts. It is not usually shown or talked about much though. Well except for maybe Hackworth's love for his daughter in giving her the Primer and always thinking about and caring for his daughter no matter what. A man can be just as good as a women in taking care of a child. Which makes me think of how it seems no matter what in custody battles the woman always gets custody... even if she is an unfit mother (or has a crack addiction) the court favors the mother having custody. It blows my mind.
ReplyDeleteI too agree. I think that nearly all women are hard wired maybe to to have children but to have maternal instincts. For example Katsa. She didn't want to have children as did many of the other characters but yet she ended up being the one who provided the more maternal things for Princess BItterblue. I feel men caring for children and showing that compassion for children is not showen often because then society starts to think, these men must have some sort of alterior motives. I agree that Hackworth is one of the few men showen in literature to have some sort of motive to further the child, and especially his daughter.
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