Gender Roles are Still Stricted..

I feel like the role of women can go different ways. Some people think the role to be the role of the housewife. To cook, clean, do laundry, and take care of the kids. These women are usually not outspoken, more timid and shy. These women listen and tend to their husband. Yet other roles of women (lately) are that women are loud and obnoxious. They like to argue and complain. They stand up for themselves and don't take disrespect. So in a way, gender roles for women have changed, but not in a good way.

I can see some restrictions for women, but not really too much. Women are now allowed to work, to buy homes, cars, or go to school. Women these days, (i've heard) are actually now making more than men do. Women can do anything a man can do, non-physically. Since the drawing, everything has changed for women. Like in my first paragraph, women are not in the little bubble like they used to be. The drawing was trying to say what would happen to women if they behaved outside of that bubble. That they would become poor and have to sell their bodies to make money. Now I feel like women don't really have a "role." Sure the media plays on the housewife making food for her kids and greeting her husband as he comes home from work but that's just TV, that's just the media trying to sell products..that's not real life. Excluding older people who have lived in the era in which women WERE to be the housewife, it really doesn't seem like anyone expects women to play that role. The role is now shared...with men.

The idea of women doing everything for men, and taking care of the house, and kids is an idea that is from an older era. The older people who now live in this generation still believe in this because they've grown up to live like that. Now in this generation, men are now sharing the responsibilities with their wife and teaching their children how to do laundry or do the dishes, regardless whether the child be male or female. Especially due to the fact that children learn from what they observe, seeing their father do the dishes would depict to the child that it is okay for males to do dishes, therefore that child grows up not thinking that women have "roles".

The only thing that can even possibly have males still think of these "roles" is of course, other males. Not all kids are brought up in the way that I just described and still thinks of boys that can play women's roles as "gay" or any word of that sort, and it is still extremely hurtful to see words like that thrown around or for kids to be taunted, but the upside is that we are progressing slowly but surely and hopefully one day all kids will grow up to be open-minded and these "gender roles" will no longer be a topic up for discussion.