Blog 5

It is interesting to see how even though we try to go against societies mold of what males and females are suppose to do we still end up doing them. What I mean by that is this afternoon at my house I found myself making baby food and doing "kitchen" things. All the while my husband was outside putting in a new motor in for his wind shield wipers on his car. A woman doing inside chores and womanly tasks while to male is outdoors working on the mechanical objects. I always thought of myself as well rounded when it comes to being able to do household chores, outdoor chores, and even fix/build things. But, then I got to thinking that sometimes society has a point. Society didn't choose the women to do the household chores because it was degrading. I think that society chose the women to do the cleaning because it comes more natural to us and we are for the most part better at it than the males. I also heard my husband already trying to teach our seven month old what 'no' means. I told him that seven months is a bit young to start to teach discipline and that you need to just pick the baby up and move him to another spot so that he doesn't keep playing with the remotes. I also find myself wanting to pick him up and cuddle with him if he happens to hit his head on the coffee table. I told myself that I never wanted to become a softy mom, but now that my son is here in this world there isn't anything I wouldn't do to protect him and to comfort him. It is amazing on how vulnerable you become once you berth a child and you have a piece of you (your heart) out in this world, and it will never again be physically connected to you. 

Blog 4

Last weekend West Lafayette, Indiana had a festival called The Feast of the Hunter's Moon. It is a festival that has many booths and the people who work there dress in many different time period outfits. There are people who dress up to represent the Scottish, French, upper class, working class, peasants, soldiers, Indians, and many more. Besides this being a fun festival to attend to you also get to learn a lot from certain time periods and how the people really lived back then. Besides the booths selling homemade crafts and food there are also activity fields where they perform old time dances or games. When my husband and I were passing by one of this activity fields I heard the announcer state that they needed participants from the audience to play a game that many children and adults played back then. The one thing that caught me off guard was that the announcer also stated that they wanted only male participants - specifically stating that no women were allowed to join this particular game. I was caught off guard by hearing that and was almost a bit irritated that the announcer would say that. But then I got to thinking that the announcer was just trying to show the audience how it really was back then in that time period. Women were excluded from a lot of activities just because of their sex. With knowing that women had it so much harder back then in feeling appreciated and even accepted I thanked God that I was born in this day and age. I appreciate all the women who have struggled to give women rights and to fight to have us "join the game with the men".