My mom tries to teach us to cook meals for my father for when he travels but I’m left wondering why he can’t do it himself? My sister and I become a substitute for my mom when she travels and do whatever she does because my dad refuses to do anything because he thinks it’s training for marriage. In “Hunks and Handmaidens” by a Newsweek Staff, she tells a story that her handsome son gets his room cleaned by his smart current girlfriend just because he mentioned that it was dirty and on instinct, his girlfriend started cleaning his room and after his mom explained that he could do it himself, the girlfriend got mad that she was cleaning for him. This heavily hits me because I feel like because my parents drilled these gender roles into me that I may subconsciously fall into the woman’s gender roles even though I try so hard avoid it. These roles turn girls, what the Newsweek Staff alluded to, a literal handmaiden for men because they’re trained from an early age to take care of them and become a second
My mom tries to teach us to cook meals for my father for when he travels but I’m left wondering why he can’t do it himself? My sister and I become a substitute for my mom when she travels and do whatever she does because my dad refuses to do anything because he thinks it’s training for marriage. In “Hunks and Handmaidens” by a Newsweek Staff, she tells a story that her handsome son gets his room cleaned by his smart current girlfriend just because he mentioned that it was dirty and on instinct, his girlfriend started cleaning his room and after his mom explained that he could do it himself, the girlfriend got mad that she was cleaning for him. This heavily hits me because I feel like because my parents drilled these gender roles into me that I may subconsciously fall into the woman’s gender roles even though I try so hard avoid it. These roles turn girls, what the Newsweek Staff alluded to, a literal handmaiden for men because they’re trained from an early age to take care of them and become a second