Trough out time, people have created this specifies ideas about how genders should behave. They are called “gender roles”. We learn about gender roles early in life. Girls are giving dolls and we teach them that they should be “girly” meaning they should be emotional, have feelings and boys are given action figures and taught to be strong, unemotional and be like a “man”. Sexism is embedded so deeply in our history even in the Bible holds many sexism views. Even in our daily basic people tend to do sexism stuff. People have implied “rules” about what a gender should do and most people believe this is how we should be. Why can’t there be gender equity?

            How can there be gender equity if we preform sexism every day? Both females and males executes sexism even on the simplest forms. Sexism is a form of prejudice too. Sexism is present in our jobs, schools, sports, streets, and even in our households. For example, the gender roles have implied that a women should stay in the house and do all the house work, clean, cook, and take care of the kids. While a man should work and work. Why can’t a man stay home and do all the house work, clean, cook, and take care of the kids while a women go and work? If this happens, and the cases are very rare a man is called a “modern man”. Why a man that do the housework it’s called a “modern man” and a women it’s called “housewife”? Because we have this mindset of stereotypes on what genders should do, and because they always have been there since the day we have consciousness and is very hard for us not to do it.
            Liu told The Huffington Post "Women today are trying very hard to fight against [these] stereotypes, which is a very important process on the way to reach the equality between the genders. And there's still many things to be done, but on [the] other hand, during this process, we become scared to face to the fact that men and women are just different in many aspects." I agree and disagree in a way with what Liu said. She said “Women today are trying very hard to fight against these stereotypes” women are not the only one fighting against them, many man today too. She also clarified that in the process in looking for this “equality between genders” we face the fact that men and women are just different in many aspects. The thing is we shouldn’t be looking for equality, we should be looking for gender equity for the simple fact that men and women would never be the same but we should be treated equally. So why can’t there be gender equity? Because of the thing we were teach and told as a child. I believe that if we all teach our children that we can do anything and be anything, and banish all those stereotypes, little by little we will accomplished this gender equity and it will bring joy to many. The day that we can be who we are and not what society wants us to be, that day we will be mark in human history.

           El día que nos conocimos fue muy especial, fue raro y ahora es que me vengo a percatar. ¿Ella? Ella es estupenda, es brillante y muy simpática pero nunca se lo diría por que solo sonreiría y me lo pondría en cara cada vez que tenga la oportunidad. Rápidamente creció en mi, cada vez competíamos mas y mas hasta que nos convertimos en mejores amigos. Fue como si la hubiera conocido anteriormente...resulto que si, la había conocido anteriormente. No solo una vez si no dos veces y nos volvimos a encontrar. Las tres veces no nos recodábamos que anteriormente nos habíamos conocido y las tres veces que la conocí me pareció espectacular. ¿Es curioso no? Me encanto la forma en el que ella se interesaba en mi, en como yo le importaba y la forma estúpida en como lo mostraba y no lo admitía pero me gustaba. Bromeábamos, tonteamos y mejoraba mis días. Yo estaba ahí por ella y ella estaba ahí por mi.

          El problema es que nos pasábamos mas juntos, y ahí es cuando comienzas a apreciar cada detalle de ella, en la forma que habla, en la forma que come y la forma en como levanta la mirada justo antes de hablar. Comienzas a ver sus defectos pero no dañan su imagen, al contrario la complementan. Un día común, me encontraba con ella, ¿por que me miras de esa forma? pregunto y me percate que la estaba observando muy directamente...ese día particular mientras miraba a sus ojos me percate de mis sentimientos hacia ella. Pensé "no no no, esto no me puede estar pasando" entonces cada vez que sentía mi estomago revuelto, y mi cabeza a punto de explotar lleno de sentimientos los escondía, lo ponía en lo mas profundo, pasando etapas y ahí los dejaba...donde nadie los podía encontrar, ni yo mismo. Pero cada vez era mas lo que tenia que esconder, cada vez que mi corazón esquipeaba un latido, cada vez que me miraba y decía mi nombre. Te llegas a preguntar ¿hasta cuanto puedo? ¿Cuanto mas puedo fingir? Cada vez mi guardia bajaba mas y mas. ¿Ahora? Ahora me percato que ese juego de no enamorarte, de esconder todo en los mas profundo de tu ser, te destruye. Terminas queriéndola mas de lo que supone, cuando solo es un amor imposible, algo que no se puede cumplir. Que la realidad es que solo existe en tu cabeza y en el único lugar que lo puedes presenciar en tus sueños...hasta cuando te levantas y te sientes feliz solo por los primeros segundos y luego te das cuenta que estabas dormido. En realidad ella es y seguirá siendo mi chica inalcanzable...mi chica imposible. ¿Cuanto mas puedo fingir que todo anda bien?

            People have develop an idea over time, that a child should be raised by two parents. Through the years, children raised by a single parent have been marginalized, they have been treated just different. To many people, raising a child with only a single parent is almost impossible. Because people believe that a child need both parents. Do they really need to? Do a child need a mother figure or a father figure to become emotionally stable? Many people believe so, they claim that a child need both parents, to be emotional stable and have a normal life. Even so they believe that most criminal people are from a family structure of single parenting.

            People believe that children of single parenting may lack attention and therefore have emotional problems, and that is difficult for a single parent to raise a child for many reasons. But in the recent years it’s have been more common to have a single parent families, every time more families are being divorces and more children are being raised only by their dad, mom and even relatives, on the other hand crime rate are getting lower each time. So why is there more children with single parents and less crimes each year? Because is irrelative, single parenting are not the cause of crimes. To support this in a recent post, "Single Moms Can't be Scapegoated for the Crime Rate Anymore," Philip Cohen tries to correct what he sees as an injustice in the way the United States' crime rate is discussed. He writes how people believe that the wave of crimes in the 1980 to 90’s was caused by an increasing number of single families. Even so he explained in his charts that crime waves began declining in the 1990 even while the single parents starts growing.   People must understand that raising a child doesn’t depend on the family structure, it depends on the values that are taught by the family member. Children that are raised by a single parent can be as progressive as one raised by both parent.


Sure, it can be difficult but not impossible, I know from personal experience that isn’t. It may even  be beneficial, because you learn from a younger age that everything must be earned, you learn values that you must fight to get what you want and you see how your parent struggle to get you everything you need. People must learn that not all families have the luck to have a healthy family structure but they can be as progressive as one. It all depends on the parent, even in a normal family whether it’s a mother and a father, a single father or a single mother, the children needs that parent figure, they need guidance. They will become a product of the values and morals the parent teach them. They will become a mirror of the love and compassion they are showed from a young age, to then pass it on.

       Somos victimas de la sociedad que nacemos, nos comportamos como nos han enseñado que debemos comportarnos, somos como nos han enseñado que debemos ser, actuamos también como debemos actuar. Seguimos leyes cuales llamamos "sentido común" pero todo es  influenciado por un poder mayor, un poder que reside en el lugar que nos toco nacer y vivir. Un lugar donde existe este sistema establecido los cuales nos manejan. Me cuesta trabajo creer en el destino cuando bailamos siendo controlados con hilos como títeres. Pero el problema es que no podemos ser la diferencia por que seremos marginados.

      Ahora, algo interesante es que nuestro concepto de que esta "bien" y de que esta "mal" también depende de donde crecimos, de donde se nos enseñaron nuestro valores. Ya que en algunas sociedades y en algunas culturas esta bien tales cosas y en otras esta mal. Hay diferentes costumbres de una sociedad entre la otra. En donde vivo se acostumbra que la persona que viene llegando salude a los otros. Como también en Francia se acostumbra que los hombres se salude con un beso en la mejilla. Uno observa eso y ve un tabú (por lo menos en el lugar que vivo).

     En conclusión, a pesar de que nuestro comportamiento depende dramáticamente del lugar donde nacimos y crecimos es interesante ver las diferentes culturas, distintas a las tuyas. Si tienes la oportunidad de viajar y experimentar los comportamientos en otros lugares del mundo te recomiendo que no la pierdas y siempre observe tus alrededor por que cada detalle es muy importante tal vez te sorprenderás con lo que encontraras.