I feel better now, but today was a really stressful day. French project, sister miscommunication...and it ended in a lot of tears. That's usually what happens when I get into confrontations, haha.
I do have a blog post planned though, so I'm going to do that. Now.
In one of my English classes, we're learning about women in the 19th century. We've been talking about double standards a lot, mostly in the sexual sense. For example, married women who had affairs with another men had harsher consequences than married men who had affairs.
I was thinking a lot after we talked about double standards, how the same still kind of applies. I might have mentioned this before, but my dad constantly tells my sister and I that we should be cooking and cleaning and doing the housework whenever our mom isn't around. I understand that he works really hard (14+ hour days) to make the money around the house to pay for all the food and utilities and such, but we're in the 21st century...Women have come a long way in terms of equality and rights, and yet we're still expected to be the "homemakers".
So, I don't think these double standards have gone away. Yes, there has been improvement between the past and the present, but there are still certain mindsets to overcome.
I hope you guys enjoyed this, very, short blog post. Maybe it stirred up some questions and concerns you have about this topic as well.
Love.
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