Thinking back to some of my earliest years, I can remember sitting and slouching with my legs open and my mom telling me "sit up straight and keep your legs closed! A lady doesn't sit like that"! I obeyed and whenever I would find myself sitting like that I would remember what she said. But I always thought to myself "why is it that only the ladies have to sit like this"? I never understood intill I got older how males and females are supposed to be and act according to society.
The most recent interaction I had was with a good friend of mine who is a male. We got into a small debate about the roles and responsibilities of a married women. He said "A wife is susposed to simply take care of home! Cooking and cleaning and taking care of the children. Nothing more and nothing less"! I simply laughed and said "those roles have changed"! Its amazing to me how society can try and limit ones roles and responsibilities in the home, based on ones gender.
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