Relationships
9 Married Women Stereotypes We Need To Leave Behind
They say stereotypes exist for a reason, but where women are concerned – particularly women who go against the grain – those stereotypes can be overly critical, inaccurate, and mean-spirited.
By Gwen Farrell4 min read
At the same time these stereotypes continue to pervade our modern mindset, marriage rates have decreased to historically low numbers. Popular culture, specifically modern media which chooses how to portray married women and is predominantly consumed by young, impressionable women, portrays marriage and commitment as obsolete fixtures of a bygone, patriarchal era. The dysfunctional characters of Sex and the City or Girls are now the metric for how meaningless sexual encounters with awful men are seen as the blueprint, not marriage.