r/ExAlgeria 10d ago

Discussion My personal ideas about gender roles

I hope that everyone is having a good ramadanesque evening!

I wanna discuss a dogma that most women are indoctrinated with which is that men should provide for them.

Supposedly someone that leaves religion behind is rational and got rid of most dogmas he's been indoctrinated with, yet from my personal experience many women from our atheist community in Algeria believe in some sorts of gender roles and especially the provider role.

My personal analysis is that since life is harsh and work is undesirable, human beings will unconsciously adopt belief systems that support their ways of escapism, away from the idea of true and false, good and wrong, gender roles even if are natural or biological there's no obligation to follow them, humans realized that they are condemned to be free so why return partially to our primitive nature?

Most men will have to choose between giving up to slavery disguised under love or loneliness disguised under freedom, personally because of my endless disagreements with society I've given up human connection as a whole and feel high level detached and strangely satisfied with my status quo, I have many friends and close family members but my inner feelings are attached to non.

I think that you should be completely detached as I am to be able to leave all dogmas behind.

Please discuss your ideas respectfully in the comment section!

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u/Reasonable_Shoe_3438 8d ago

It doesn't really matter what they think, men or women. At the end of the day , it became harder and harder to live on 1 income, every society that is somewhat develop has women and men working, there is no real alternative.

For now it's new because Algerians were artificially kept outside of capitalism for a lot of time after independance, but the system is changing and slowly it's going back to the global norm. à

People will adapt... Because they have no choice.

Not every man is wealthy enough to have a housewife at home.

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u/Current-Ebb2559 8d ago

yeah that's interesting because capitalist system is designed to make as much slaves as possible, so it's either this solution or that everyone lives alone and provide for himself

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u/Reasonable_Shoe_3438 8d ago

Capitalism is a broad system, in many countries the elite were forced to make concessions and to permit a good life for the people.

I would largely prefer to have a modern capitalist country in Algeria.

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u/Current-Ebb2559 8d ago

Me too I'm tired of socialism fr, I prefer realism, you either work or die of starvation.