Friday, December 17, 2010

Almost Forgot!

Soooo I'm sitting here all packed up and ready to go home and what do you know, I forgot to write my gender blogs. BUTTTT I was watching TV when I realized I forgot. Lol some random company's investment commercial comes on, and its talking about investing. And the investor on the commercial was a man. The commercial started off talking about getting married, then moving into a house and starting a family. Now ok, they had to pick a male or female for this part. But the best part of this commercial was the fact that the house they were in kept changing as he got older. Eventually they had a kid, and it was talking about how sometimes you need room to do your business while other people do theirs. The woman was upstairs with the baby in the typical motherly role, as the man was downstairs on his computer doing his investing. I mean I don't know if this is really a play on gender. But what I do think, is that there is a strong will out in the US right now to return to the 1950's attitude. I know my sister has gone ahead with that, and when you hear republicans talk all the time on TV, I get similar views from them. I do hope women keep advancing toward equality in all aspects of life, but if this is the majority attitude, I can't help but think that we might be headed backward....

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