On this week’s reading “Because you’re a girl” by Ijeoma A she tells us about her personal experiences on the expectations and norms that are placed upon us girls in society. Things like cooking, cleaning and serving the men in the house. These tasks that we are raised to be accustomed to end up impacting us in horrible ways. She states “My family’s approval was all that I lived for, and I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But, whenever I was alone, I’d catch myself wishing that I were born a boy.”
This particular sentence really caught my attention because this is something that I personally have experienced myself. When growing up in a Hispanic household you are expected to do it all and to perfection. I was the only girl with two older brothers so if not most then all of the house chores were left to me and my mother, I never found it fair as I wish to stay as laidback as my brothers were. It’s so sad to me that this is a mentality that is still around, us women are still expected to do these particular things. Now that I am older and have a mind of my own, so I definingly don’t let things like this slide.
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