Blog Post 3: American Lifestyle

In America, we really don't have a defined patriarchal or matriarchal society; it all depends on the family and their social/financial situation. For instance, a cliché American family has a working father and a stay at home mother that takes care of the two children. But that's the only cliché family. There are other families who consist of a single mother that have to take care of her child(ren) by working and doing "men jobs." Looking at each other as the opposite sex, men and women think that the other sex has it easy. Men think that women just cook and clean and do the jobs that aren't up to speed with what men can do. Women think that they have it hard with slaving throughout the house, taking care of the kids, driving them everywhere, as well as working one or two jobs just to be able to make ends meet with food or clothes and college funds. The reality is both sexes have equally difficult jobs, but they don't take enough time to appreciate what each other has to do. The difficulties for being a man in modern society is that we are perceived as brute and simple while the difficulties for being a woman is that they have to deal with alleged "sexism" as well as raging hormones. Stereotypes for men are being simple (as said before) and dumb. Stereotypes for women are that they belong in the kitchen and basically have to submit themselves to their husbands. Truthfully, neither of those are really true. Some of the smartest people in the world's history were men AKA Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, etc. And independent women include Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, etc.

One discussion question that Yolanda and Carlos would feel strongly about would be mine, that I did not have time to share previously, "Do you think the way that Carlos mistreated Yolanda as she was a child affected the way she grew up and who she is today?" I think that Yolanda would say Yes because all of the neglect lead her to be very self leading and ignorant of others' opinions. Carlos would say No probably because he believes that women and girls are used to that kind of treatment and must subdue to the dominant male.