Blog Post #3

In American society today, most women are getting equal rights as men. It used to be that women were the "house keepers" and played the role of a home stay parent; a parent who stayed home to cook, clean and watch the kids. Nowadays, more women are taking the active role as a working parent while more fathers begin to stay home. I feel like men owe women more respect then they give them. The men has the role of being a protective figure in a household and someone who will take care of the family. The women has the role of being a loving figure and more parent like. Some difficulties of being a man are that they must protect their house and family from and dangers. They will be the one to defend and fight for their family. A disadvantage of being a woman is that they still have to break from this stereotype of being a  "house keeper".  A disadvantage of men are that they are called drafted more when there is a war. A disadvantage of women is that they have to give birth. Although many more women are taking active duties as a working parent, many people still look down upon them as being just a cook or cleaner. Some stereotypes of men include; sports lover, beer drinker, can fix anything mechanical, aggressive and can't cook. Some stereotypes of women include; emotional, talkative, cooking skills, maternal, nurturing and sensitive. Women and men are very different, and both have many stereotypes attached to their gender.  From Sofias perspective, if she were to answer the question about the pill, she would not swallow it. I think this is because to me, Sofia is shown as a free person and I feel that if all her music was taken away, she would not be the same. I think she would have her soul mate and risk getting her collar bone broken every three years instead of having all the music she loves taken away. But i do not think she would give up her soul mate because she is a fighter for love as shown in the book.