The Gender Role

"I don't have anyone to play with, just the boys!" exclaimed my younger sister as she chose the lonely path at a recent birthday party. There was five adolescent boys swimming and playing catch in the beside my sister while she decided to swim back in forth in the shallow end.

From a young age, children assume that the opposite sex is the enemy. Boys-versus-girls is always a mode of interacting on the playground or even in a civil conversation at an early stage in life.

Why is that? 

The society around us-growing up-makes innocent minded children learn that the right way to live is playfully against each gender. 

The same children learning that precedent in life grow up to live in that same driven society in the 'real world'. In corporate America, men cheat women in earnings as men being the one signing the checks at the end of the day.  The heads of this big corporate chains feel like women aren't fit for the environment or aren't welcomed into that. Who are they to tell women-or anyone in that matter- where they are allowed to be or not?

In households nationwide, the children who grown up divided will then have children on their own. Some parents choose to teach their children not to be so narrow-minded; but others, never let the precedent die. The way of life never conforms in society,so the world around us won't ever change on the playful joke of being against each other. 

As for my sister, an open mind will be unlocked through the morals and breaking of standards in our household.