Gender Stereotyping

It's not a surprise to those that have been around the boys that they have, shall we say, a little bit of an issue with what they believe to be a woman's duties and a man's duties and they tend to live by the commandment of boys rule and girls are to be bossed.

It doesn't work out well for them here in their female dominant home life - Mike just shakes his head and wonders if they will soon buy a clue and stop antagonizing the females in the house with their warped, male perspective.

The last few days have been very hectic with starting back to school, learning about new teachers, new classmates and a lot of repetition of school stories and talking about their teachers. Tonight they thought to ask Sydney what her teachers' name was. She said she has lots of teachers in high school and then had to tell them the names. She was listing them and she has classes with several male teachers. It took about 3 names starting with Mr. before Eli caught on that they are men. He stops her, questions whether or not she has become confused, she convinced him that there are indeed "boy" teachers. Lucas looks at Rachel demands she name her professors and wants to know if she has "boy" teachers too.

I wish I'd had a camera. The total shock and awe was amazing. Eli summed it up, "NO WAY! Boys are teachers! Awesome!" (Did I mention we were in a restaurant when this epiphany and vocalization occurred?) Ok, now I'm wondering, what job titles do they think their own music, p.e. and principal - who happen to be guys - hold? So I had to ask. We never made it past their principal. Their interpretation - he's a policeman and once again I'm relegated to the uneducated mother position for not knowing this obvious answer.