Family Influences

In class, whether yesterday or today, someone read their essay and they spoke about how some children grow up and are automatically taught to presume gender roles based off of their sex. For instance, a man should be doing all the yard work, and house repairs, while the woman cleans and cooks. 90 percent of the time most of our religious views, opinions and etc. are influenced by our parents. Therefore this intrigued me because they had a very good point. I grew up like that where my male cousins got to do all the manly chores and I was always stuck in the kitchen helping my grandmother cook and clean. And she would always tell me that if I was no good at cooking and cleaning no one would marry me. I always thought that was funny because I never quite understood why the man and woman can’t work together instead of working separately and having set jobs. It wasn't until a couple years ago that I understood that a thing such as gender roles were real. I had this friend and when we would hang out he would always expect me to clean up after him. One day he was helping me assemble my moms new television stand and he did not understand how to do it. I began to read the directions, which he refused to do and attempted to explain how to assemble the stand. He then proceeded to tell me that he knew what he was doing and that I should go make him a sandwich. I instantly copped an attitude and it wasn't because I felt like he was being disrespectful. But more so because he wouldn't allow me to help him when he didn't even know what he was doing and I didn't really make that good of a sandwich anyway.

So in my opinion, in school and at a young age we should be teaching these students preferably males, that we are all equal human beings. Just because males have a bigger build and are stronger than some of us females does not mean that we are prohibited from doing anything. Its not fair that women are not treated as fair as men, and this needs to be stopped.