Personal Narrative: Becoming A Generation Of Women

All the way up until matriculation, my mom raised me while my absent father was at work for most of the day. Even when my father returned from work, the words of my mom were still in my ear. Everything I learned as a child, I learned from my mom: how to sew, how to iron, how to clean the house, how to do laundry, how to cook, how to garden and how to shop for groceries. All these tasks are extremely helpful in modern society, but in the context of rigid gender roles, I learned all the duties assigned to women. Whereas the only lasting thing my father ever taught me was how to grill a steak to reach peak perfection of medium rare. Adhering to the definition of a man, I lacked all the essential qualifications.
I’m definitely not the only male who had this upbringing. In today’s society, men’s upbringing leads them down a life long path of domestication. “We’re a generation of men raised by women” (Fight Club). There are no physically challenging obstacles in life like there were in subsequent centuries. It’s basic evolution; men are have nothing to …show more content…
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything” (Fight Club). Apocalyptic films in which everything is demolished is just the first step in the audience’s path towards being free. With the destruction of the world, there are no cares left for men. Dull jobs are thrown to the wayside and the matriarchy is quickly forgotten along with the previous society. Men become masculine once again when time requires it, and they instantaneously change from a sedentary lifestyle to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. One notable example of reverting to one’s true man is the intro to I Am Legend in which Will Smith’s character is driving through barren New York City in a Shelby Cobra with his German Shepherd while hunting deer. The lack of excitement in a man’s life is what drive’s them toward apocalyptic fantasies like