Week 3 response to Jeff

Jeff,

I find it hilarious that you as an adult have to sit in the basement at the kiddy table. This is funny to me because I have a friend who is my age (22) and she has a big family which consists of many aunts and uncles and cousins. Many of her cousins are over 18, and when her family gets together there is always a “kiddy table” and she has to be part of it. I know this because I once went to a family event with her and I had to sit at the kiddy table! I thought this was funny because we are young adults and should not have to sit with the little kids. But I guess in her situation there are so many older adults that there just isn’t enough room for her to sit at the adult table.

The other thing I want to mention is the part about girls and boys helping out in the kitchen. As far as I can remember, all the women in my family are the ones to prepare the meals for Christmas dinner and other big holidays. The only time a man is cooking is when the grill is involved because it is a “manly” object and I guess women cannot handle a massive steel grill with flames. Haha But you have to consider the fact that long long ago in cave man days, men were the ones to hunt and prepare all the meals, and this was considered a man’s job. I guess times have changed. Once I reached a certain age where I was able to actually contribute in the kitchen I was included in the meal preparations. I have two little twin sisters who will be 10 this July, and since they were 7 years old they always wanted to get in the kitchen with us women and help out. I feel as though this is one of those things where you observe people doing certain things and you learn to adapt to your gender role, which for women would be cooking, as society teaches us. I find this kind of disturbing because they were just little girls at the age of 7 and they already were used to the idea that they will one day be doing the same thing as mom. I don’t blame them for wanting to do it but in my opinion this was a young age to start wanting to be grown up. The men of course line up to fill their plate as you have mention after the women are done preparing the meals. It wouldn’t hurt for a guy to get in the kitchen and make a meal for a woman once in a while haha.