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You say... "You refer to gender roles as "restrictive". I find this an odd assertion." But then just before you say... "... what can a man teach a girl? Certainly not about "becoming a woman"." That sounds like a restrictive outlook to me. You don't need communism to see that that's not relevant even in today's world. Not that it must be a man, but what is there that they can't teach agirl? About mentstruation? Getting cat-calls? Maybe, debatably, not about the social pressures girls face that boys don't? I think this just highlights the need to move beyond such restrictions. Not that real-life relationships don't circumvent such restrictions already. Certainly they don't have to be pedogogic in any sense whatsoever. "Ultimately, there will be nothing that humans can do that machines can't do better." Except that human wants are potentially unlimited, which is a good thing for people who want to be productive in new ways. I doubt Marx realized that capitalism would make us so wealthy so as to make it possible for the economy to support less commodified forms of production like craft beers or localvorism.