After touching on the topic about gender roles and inequality within gender, it really made me think a lot about it. Especially the conversation about Google and the search box. We talked about how when we would type in women should... or women shouldn't and men should or men shouldn't and what would come up. I was a little shocked when I saw such gender inequalities pop up under the search suggestions. I maybe shouldn't have been shocked, but I was. These search suggestions consisted of men being in control and being able to do pretty much anything they wanted to do, and women were basically talked about not being able to do anything in this society,but care for the household and children. This topic reminded me of a riddle one of my friends had told me about inequality between gender. So I looked it up on Google and found the exact riddle.
http://www.bethehero.com.au/index.php?id=29
I myself read the riddle again, and still immediately thought the surgeon is another dad that the boy had thinking maybe step dad, I even thought that he could have gay parents who were both men. Never did I really think again that it was his mom. It is so odd how we have been shaped sometimes to think that gender roles are real and only for that one gender.
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