I live my life at home as a minority, but I will not be a glorified maid. I have two young, crazy, attractive male roommates that ” appreciate” me. They appreciate my cooking, my cleaning… , the little outfits I prance around in and my girlfriends  Don’t get the wrong idea  the boys are clean, our place is nice but I often fell obligated to do certain things. Gender roles are the roles that society assigns to men and women based on their gender. Society? My society? Society’s fucked and who assigns what roles? And I’m supposed to be governed by these roles only based on the fact that I have a “snatch pipe “( term used at home).  This is why my generation is all over the place our norms, tradition’s , what we believe were “expected” to become were created generations and generations before us when society was even more fucked. When men could rape there wives, women could only have one job being a maid at home and we were in a cold war!! Since July when I turned twenty two I’ve been really excited because  with another birthday  also comes respect. I truly feel independent, in control and society has started to recognize me as a member.  I have a voice and slowly I’m no longer becoming a  victim of age discrimination.  So I’m society now at twenty two. How am I suppose to decide what differentiates the roles for  men and women and what  those roles are??  When media and advertisements have  skewed my perception, thanks to T.I I know what my generations norms are,  we can have whatever we like  right?.  At home I expect the boys to put furniture together and  take out the garbage  but as the women in the penthouse am  I expected to roast the garlic and caramelize the onions for the mash potatoes for dinner tonight?

Dinner tonight:

Barbecued glazed ribs, sauteed Portabello mushrooms with garlic and wine, caesar salad,  garlic mashed potatoes, french bread and fresh bruschetta .

No not caesar salad I make it with way to much garlic and I’m going out later tonight for drinks at this new restaurant  Kai downtown.  I miss the Avenue and my old downtown scene,  I feel like something exciting will happen tonight maybe some role playing.

AJM