Gender roles, gender shm'oles!

Thinking about it, Shakespeare didn't really follow the traditional gender roles in Macbeth, did he? Lady Macbeth was a very dominant character, and Macbeth... Well, he was way more sensitive and "girly" than I imagined he'd be. But you know, I think that's a good thing. If their roles had been swapped at the time of writing, I doubt readers of Macbeth would bat an eyelash. Men are always portrayed to be much more powerful than women in society, and if Shakespeare had gone the route of 'manipulative man uses his dominance to force a woman to do what he wants', I believe this story would have been much more bland in comparison to what we have now. A wife who is more intelligent and conniving than her husband, now that's a story! Anyway, moving on. Lady Macbeth kind of has this... Obsession with masculinity and femininity. She refers to breast milk as "human kindness", talks about being "unsexed" and wanting all of her own milk taken from her, and worst of all, she talks about killing babies. And I'm not even talking about some sissy way of killing babies, I mean she literally wants to bash a baby's skull into a wall. Talk about insane. She just... REALLY wants to be a man, it seems, because being a woman is just horrifying in her head. Which, yeah, I kind of get it. It sucks, not going to lie. You can get away with a whole lot more when you're a man than when you're a woman, and if she wants to star in the American drama, How to get Away with Murder, she needs to be a man, hands down. But still, killing babies? Talk about weird.