Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
