And so, I was mortified to realize that my daughter wasn’t paying attention. Instead, she was staring blankly at cartoons, forsa
king the hypnotic power of fire for that of the television; the memory of the tribe, for commercials. I was so shocked, I couldn’t speak! Thousands of questions robbed me of my sleep. What had happened? Where had I gone wrong? What kind of society had we created? What had we women achieved by leaving the home? Yes, we had won rights that belonged to us and we had earned recognition for our intellectual activity and a better place in the world, but with great sadness I was forced to accept that none of the revolutions we participated in had managed to create a proper system for the creation of the New Man. What does this excerpt reveal about gender roles?
This statement changed "Gender Roles" in this person's view that even though Women Wanted the right to do hard labor and work that their husbands, fathers, and soon son's would, they were the housekeepers, and since they no longer have time to watch the children and raise them the way they wanted to, they must trust the government with the television, or schools to not brainwash the next generation. It revealed that the role of the Woman was just as, if not More important than that of the male's in order to raise and teach the next generation themselves, and teach from their mistakes instead of having to repeat them for no reason.
