Where is this "woman's place"?

Question

Every day, at least one poster, male or female, refers to a woman "knowing her place." We never hear of men "knowing their place." What does this phrase mean? Where is this place? Who decides where "the place" is? Why do women but not men (apparently) have one?

Answer 1

Tracey, if the question or answer involves a woman knowing her place, a sandwich, a shirt or includes the word DESTROYED, you are generally being pranked.

Some of the guys ask serious questions but they go un answered or fogged off with the usual inflexible rhetoric.

A man DOES have his place, he works, makes money, provides for loved ones, how would you cope with life if your role and choices were as limited and defined as a mans?

Answer 2

Lying on my chaise longue being hand fed champagne and grapes.

Answer 3

Apparently a "women's place" is in the kitchen and the house(well, supposed to be anyway!)

A women's "place" differs for different women, don't take any notice to people that say what a women's place is,only ignorant ,sexist people say that.

Most people wont say that, its ridiculous to define what a women's place is.

Nobody has the right to define what a persons "place" is, never mind a women's.

Answer 4

I don't have a flip remark to draw cheap laughs on this one.

The reference is to STATUS, and the inference is that women have a status that is somehow inferior to men...but only because the men say so.

Other social animal species like apes and dogs, for example, have very clearly defined status ascribed to each member of their tribe, pack or community.   Each member of the pack must "know his place" because this social structure has proven to be beneficial for the survival of the species.

I thought humans had evolved beyond that.  But maybe I was wrong in some cases.

Answer 5

By a mans side or maybe even walking a few steps behind him.

Answer 6

Not to disagree with You Maam, but i am a male and i know my place.

Answer 7

Joe, that's not even funny as a joke.  

"The place" exists only in the imaginations of men still living in the dark ages.  Insecure men feel like they have more power when they can put women down and be in control.  A confident man would never feel the need to degrade women in that matter.

Answer 8

Since you havent given a link or reference, I just have to be content with saying my point of view.

"Knowing her place" = "knowing where her heart is". Its an another way of saying "The woman should know what she wants and choose what she wants to". This is the only meaning with which I would use that phrase.

"Why do women but not men (apparently) have one?" - I thought men had "there place too". The society doesnt think high of a man whos jobless sitting in his deceased moms basement living off of his parents savings.

Answer 9

"In the kitchen" is what is stereotyped or "in the home"

comes from that old housewife idea

- men go out to work.  Wifes stay at home and look after the kids maybe work 2 hrs a day perhaps.   Normal pattern.  

But some women choose to be professional and dont go in for having kids so that rule may not apply there the same.

Answer 10

I have never seen anything like this on a poster.  Where are you from?  Please enlighten me.  This would not be politically correct in UK.

Answer 11

i have never heard of this and i live in america

Answer 12

I know my place. It's in a radio station.

Answer 13

I use to hear this phrase a lot and still do when I'm around conservative right wingers and/or conservative religious types (hey there are plenty of both in the south). The retort I use to hear was:

A woman's place is in the House...and in the Senate.

Answer 14

I know what my place is,

Pay my bills, educate myself, obey the law, do my taxes on time, vote, hold a steady job, treat others with the same respect I want them to give me, read the bible and follow the teaching of Christ, and spend time with a man who's willing to do the same (because he knows his place) I stand at his side, and he stands at mine. I feel that by doing these things I'm staying in "my place".

Answer 15

Elle, I agree with you and to add I put God First and far most

Insecure men feel like they have more power when they can put women down and be in control. A confident man would never feel the need to degrade women in that matter.

Answer 16

Its called the kitchen.

Answer 17

i think it is the garbage can

Answer 18

This place is inside their head.  It's a figment of their imagination that they created in order to control the people they deem unworhty of anything else.  

The only men who say that and don't realize that men have a place to (and that's beside the women), are idiots.  Disregard them.  They're probably not married and will die lonely old buggers.

Answer 19

dunno, but i generally know where i am. at the moment, for example, i'm back home having a nice cup of tea :-)

Answer 20

About her place

Woman"s  place somehow insid the  songs

Woman"s place in my "live" application"

But..!

Which makes me wonder,

When a woman asking about her place...!

Woman place , woman has talents for one million artist

and if there r no places  let her to share me the same lyrics,

thanks

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Answer 21

Why do you refer to the worst men?

Quit trying to make a victim of your gender.