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Cultural issues

Posted by The Warrior on 2018-January-05 12:51:54 EST, Friday
In reply to Household expenditures posted by kratt on 2018-January-04 10:47:13 EST, Thursday
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In many cultures, especially rural ones, girls are considered a burden/potential asset.
Girls are not considered suitable for farm work or any other sort of labor as many cultures still have a division of labor along gender lines. I grew up this way.
On weekends myself and assorted cousins would be trooped over to my grandmother's house. Girls worked indoors doing "women's work" supervised by a woman. We boys worked in the yard doing yard work using hand tools, supervised by a man or elder male cousin. Both boys and girls did labor intensive work, but were separated by gender traditions.
At the end of the work day, girls help prepare the meal for the boys, thus preparing them to be good wives. Boys learned that girls were to be of service to us.
Cultures that still have dowry systems, still "sell" off their daughter for monetary gain. As to whether or not the girls like their husbands is of little consequence. The boy or man who marries his child bride can now be the master of his own house.
My grandmother was over 20 years younger than my grandfather. She once said that she "learned to love" my grandfather. By all accounts, he was a harsh and strict man. Such is the life of girls in the "third world".



The Warrior

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