Familial Roles
I don’t mean to pick on mothers so much. In the case of David’s parents, I was trying to reverse a lot of story roles that have the father as the disciplinarian vs. the mother. In the case of Manuel’s family, I viewed her as having expectations for her children that would come off as chauvinist if it had come from his father. I tried challenging myself in shaping her reasoning and making myself question if she is actually wrong.
She may not realize it yet, but the path Manuel sees before him so far, she would view him as shunning some of his responsibilities as a man, to his family and to society as a whole. What about her older son, Carlos? Funny, you should mention that…
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Chauvinist views are chauvinist whether a man or a woman expresses them. That said, there are definitely differences regarding where they come from and what they say about the person expressing them.
i am specifically reminded about a couple of friends’ mothers on this note. One of them would shoo her sons out of the kitchen like this when they were cooking, but would be much more open to the subject of training them in this manner when she wasn’t cooking. She was also quite grateful when she had a long day and they cooked supper for her. She was clearly intending to convey, “Not now, I’m busy”, but not giving enough focus on her words to choose the right ones. I did talk to her once about this, and she confirmed that.
Another friend’s mother was very embarrassed about her cooking skills. She felt that she was faking it and didn’t want her son to find out because he always seemed impressed with her cooking. She cooked basic meals well, and had no perspective on how far she had come. It’s not that she forgot what it was like to not know what she was doing in the kitchen, but that she never stopped feeling that way. She managed to turn her attitude around when somebody asked her about her first time cooking at the right time.
In both cases, they were feeling flustered and were focused on another task (specifically cooking), so they said the first thing that came to their mind to get a man out of the kitchen, which happened to be the attitudes they heard expressed when they were little girls.