Moods
OP - July 18, 2015, 06:11 AM
I am on a ride that likes to swing me to polar ends when I am truthful.
This afternoon, my father wished me all the luck in the world when I went to my job interview.
This evening, I was telling my mother that the plight of women in our culture is to wash dishes (as I was washing dishes, ironically), serve, and clean up after the men in our lives.
My mother disagreed and said that no matter who I live with, it’s just common courtesy and consideration to clean from time to time. A fair point on her part - she likes to imagine reality differently from the way it actually is. That was when I pointed out to her that my father was in the living room watching the news, and my brother was downstairs playing video games, and I, my sister-in-law, and my mother were in the kitchen cleaning their dishes. Wouldn’t it be common courtesy for them to at least wash the one or two plates they ate off of? I then explained to her that they would never do it, because it’s emasculating for them. We are the women and we are expected to clean. If we don’t, we’re worthless.
My father, having overheard this conversation, said, “If that’s the case, then don’t eat in this house.”
I laughed and said, “Maybe I’ll stop paying rent, too.”
Then he said, “One day your husband will beat you.” He said it in Arabic, and in a tone that implied he couldn’t wait for the day that another man would beat me into my place.
Oh Baba, I haven’t let YOU beat me into submission. What makes you think I would ever let another man do it?
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