The point you realized society was confused with the roles of males and females...
02-14-2013, 10:49 AM
I have a sister two years younger than me, and for most of my childhood my father would basically shove his version of chivalry down my throat by putting her up on a pedestal and forcing me to acknowledge it.
Whenever we ordered pizza, she got the first slice. If we each rented a movie for the weekend, we watched hers first. I'd get popped on the head if I forgot to open a door for her or walked through first. On my birthday, she'd even get a small gift so she wouldn't feel bad about me getting so much attention. I never got shit on hers.
My dad and I had a pretty big fight about it once when I was ten or eleven. It was right when we started learning about feminism and women's rights in school, and I confronted him by saying that if women were supposed to be equal now, why does my sister get to be special? He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Son, that's just how the world works." Just thinking about that day still makes me seethe.
Whenever we ordered pizza, she got the first slice. If we each rented a movie for the weekend, we watched hers first. I'd get popped on the head if I forgot to open a door for her or walked through first. On my birthday, she'd even get a small gift so she wouldn't feel bad about me getting so much attention. I never got shit on hers.
My dad and I had a pretty big fight about it once when I was ten or eleven. It was right when we started learning about feminism and women's rights in school, and I confronted him by saying that if women were supposed to be equal now, why does my sister get to be special? He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Son, that's just how the world works." Just thinking about that day still makes me seethe.