Millennials Thoughts on Gender Role

Not very long ago, one of the blogs I read from did a 15-days writing challenge, the author of the blog shared his views on critical topics and trends like Love, Hate, Courage, Feminism, Life, Death, Gender Role, Sacrifice and so on.

His view on Gender Role particularly caught my attention, not because of his point of view – the author was pretty concise with his thoughts, he made sure not to support or judge either of the genders, Its almost as though he was scared to write. I really wouldn't judge him, considering how delicate trends like gender role can be. – but because of a particular comment on the post.

It's quite disappointing that people still see things this way.

Hi Folu, the guy that is a boy, Congratulations.

This is a difficult topic as we all know it and I recognize the fact that everybody is entitled to an opinion.

I’ve got in endless arguments severally because of this role distribution. But first thing first, I’ve got to make one thing clear;
*Grabs the Megaphone and jump on the podium*
“THIS IS 2019! TWENTY-FREAKING-NINETEEN!!! WE ARE NOT STONE MEN. THE DINOSAUR AGE IS PAST, COME JOIN US IN THE 21ST CENTURY! PLEASE!!!!”
*Drops mic and walks out*

Fine, biological, boys count for some big deal, they have longer limbs, bigger brain, broader shoulder, they have big head too. While the girls got some juicy milky stuff in their chest, limbs but not as long or as strong as the boys, brain housed by a skull not as big as the boys, richer scalp and better IQ.
My point is, all these body parts and attributes have little and almost nothing to do with dominance.

Dominance came to place as a result of socio-economic factors which include culture, social, power, traditions, and economic factors. All of these together influenced our psychology as humans.
Men are the one who works and bring food to the table because that’s what the structure in place supports.
Women are the human that takes care of the house and breed the children because over time, that’s how it has been. The simple fact is “Norms is what we pronounce it to be”
The norm in Saudi Arabia is women don’t even shake hands and norms in England support kissing as a form of greeting irrespective of whatever gender. Ordinarily shaking hands even with no sexual intention is a crime to them while kissing is no big deal to the English. Guess what’s going on here – the difference in cultural background.
Take for instance, if somebody in the authority, maybe the Pope or a President announce today, that henceforth, it is now a “punishable” crime to laugh in public. Give it ten years, laughing in public will become a myth, it will extinct. It will become a norm and nobody will remember it used to be a thing..(punishable here implies the use of power and imposing law on people)
This is how, in my opinion, and exposure, gender roles came to place.

Gender roles were imposed on us, it was a laid down strategy to guide the way of life. But we all know strategies come with expiry dates. Strategy goes out of vogue and requires improvement and readjustment in accordance with time and evolution.
If you have been paying attention, you’d have noticed that no newborn child whether male or female, come to this world with a manual attached to the placenta.
If girls were brought up the same way boys are, girls will be just like boys.
You see things are changing, it is hard but change is inevitable.
There was a time, those days of waptrick, sefanRu and RedWap (Dear God, Dear God those days were sweet) when 100MB was the best that can happen to anybody. Now, 2GB is not even enough to take a stroll on IG.

That’s the power of change. This is not a matter of tables will turn, no, tables have turned. We have women pilots, the same way we have outstanding male nurses.
The idea of sticking to your role is so 1845, there’s no role anywhere. You be what you want to be.
You cannot compare us to other animals, we are higher animals for a reason. We have free will, we are not routinely bound like most animals.