Turkeys in the Kitchen

In the novel “Turkeys in the Kitchen” by Dave Barry, the author notices how each gender have their role, especially when it comes to the holidays. In my opinion, the majority of the people seems to believe that each gender has their own different responsibilities and do’s base on how their culture employs it. People have been teached how to behave and what their responsibilities as a man or a woman are, depending on the situation. For example; men don’t get involved in the kitchen as much as women do and when they try to do so, women prefer them not to, since they don’t have the same “sexiest Home Economics training” in the “pre-feminism era.” If men and women don’t get involved in each other “eras” the stereotypes issue will continue growing as part of the culture. On the other hand, there are a few people who believe that each gender borns knowing what their responsibilities and eras are. My opinion, I don’t believe that each woman born knowing that their responsibilities are to cook, clean, take care of the kids etc. neither men, they don’t born knowing how to do the heavy work that they’re expect it to do. In my opinion, it’s all about culture and how the surroundings that we were born in were. I do think that men are capable of doing what women do and vise versa. The only thing that stops us from doing it is our culture and the stereotypes that they have on it. Most of the times people won’t act the way they want to just because they are afraid of what would their culture think about breaking their stereotypes. For example; if an Hispanic man wants to become a fashion designer, he most likely won’t do it since he will be afraid of being judged by his culture. I personally agree with Barry when he says “Man are still basically acum when it comes to helping out in the kitchen” Men are useless when it comes to tasks that are traditionally “feminine” since they are not familiar with them. All of this stereotype issues and gender responsibilities are part of our cultures and they will always keep affecting us in a positive or negative way, depending on how cultural the person is.