The good news is that most people (operative word: “most”) eventually come to recognize how casually sexist these beliefs are. They start to see the harm in perpetuating an ideology that pits women against one another and props them up in a way that values them as nothing more than accessories in the lives of men. The bad news is that, like the flu virus, these rules and beliefs seem to mutate over the years as each successive generation deals with its own version of these gendered stereotypes and expectations, and it doesn’t feel like it’ll end anytime soon.
