On Gender Roles

[Ace Otana]

Funny thought.. After 3 days of moving my ex-roomie to her new apartment and my next roomie in with me, assembling my bf's tv-table while he was peeling potatoes didn't seem like such a big deal. It just made me think, is it ok for a dude to make a "sammy", when the girl is doing something considered to be manly stuff? After all these years, have the gender roles changed; or are they still the same? Am I the only girl that has played with Lego robots sometime in the past?

Many decades ago, marriage was not just on love but functionality too. A system that has been in play for hundreds of years. An unwritten rule if you will. The wife would be expected to maintain the house hold while the man goes out to bring in money. Wife does the cleaning and cooking, while the husband focuses on the financial support and other less major matters.
But over time things really have changed. Equality has taken a brilliant leap where women are far more independent and now are also expected to do either as much or even more than men. Equal effort and mixed work, on the end run result, it increases efficiency, stability and equality.
And so, with today's level of equality, it is expected to see women do things that was once only for men. I know a few women who decorate a whole house all on their own. From tilling, to flooring and even moving furniture. A man's job is no longer a man's job but a persons.

Equality, it is a beautiful thing.