WORK EQUITY

So I pride myself on trying to raise two boys without biased opinions of gender stereotypes. We let them play with dolls... we let them say pink was their favorite color... we even let Kevin take his pink "My Little Pony" to his first day of Young 5's! (OK, yeah, so if his Dad hadn't told him first it was okay I probably would have tried to sway him to a different toy to take since I figured it would backfire - and it did :( ). Just from being around a class of 15 boys & 4 girls for a year they've picked up more "traditional" gender stereotypes, but we still try really hard to show them that things are grey in this world -- not just black & white of who does what in society.

Well, imagine the shock WE had last night!!

We're sitting at dinner and talking about how we have to clean up and Kevin wants to know what we're cleaning now. (With a huge sigh, of course.) We explain that we mean we have to clean up after dinner - dishes, table, etc... I then perkily turn to Kevin and say, "Yes, honey, in another year or so you'll be old enough to load the dishwasher by yourself!" His response was, "Alexis will do that." (Alexis is a classmate that this year was Kevin's bride-to-be -- he's ditched Leslie from last year LOL!) Harry's comment then was, "Well, Alexis isn't here now -- YOU are."

Kevin: "Well, when we're married she'll do the dishes."

Michelle: "Why would you say that?" (As she shoots evil glares to Harry, of the oh-so-lately-hotel-mentality-even-when-at-home....)

Kevin: "Because the girls always do the dishes."

Michelle: "No they don't. Boys do dishes."

Harry: "What makes you think the girls do the dishes?" (As he starts to sweat knowing he's stepped in it BIG TIME....)

Kevin: "Because Mommy does all the dishes here."


Guess who did all the kitchen clean-up last night????