"I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both"
Chastised by some, loved by others, it depends a lot on the audience. I think overall though women have been given more a pass, pegged as 'willfull' or 'impetuous' where as with men it's treated as a flaw that they should be shunned for.
Think of the differing ways that daddy's girl and mamma's boy are perceived to get to what I mean.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth
"I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both"
Chastised by some, loved by others, it depends a lot on the audience. I think overall though women have been given more a pass, pegged as 'willfull' or 'impetuous' where as with men it's treated as a flaw that they should be shunned for.
Think of the differing ways that daddy's girl and mamma's boy are perceived to get to what I mean.