Same View, Different Gender

I believe that if Pat Archbold, author of "The Death of Pretty" and Lakshmi Chaudhry, who wrote "Men Growing Up to be Boys," were to sit down together and discuss their beliefs regarding gender norms, the two would get along quite nicely. Archbold's beliefs are rooted in the traditional view that a woman's beauty stems from a combination of innocence and physical attributes. He believes that a "proper" woman is one who projects innocence, not one who aims for the pop-culture ideals of hot-ness. Chaudhry’s beliefs are also somewhat traditional, and possibly old-fashioned. She notes the change in men’s societal roles stating that men used to hold a greater amount of responsibility, which required a higher maturity level. Now-a-days, however, Chaudhry references TV, movies, and books that depict full grown men acting like little boys who are basically unable to take care of themselves and lack the emotional capacity to commit to anything. Though Chaudhry and Archbold expressed their opinions on the social expectations of opposite genders, they share the same point of view. Both authors think that men and women are going down the wrong path, and that this generation’s ideas of what is socially acceptable as far as gender norms are fundamentally flawed.