The Men we Carry in our Minds... My thoughts

In Scott Russell's essay "The Men we Carry in Our Minds" I feel like he is discussing a lot of different issues from men being the head of the house, to women breaking free of the sexist roles of being the house maid. However, for me I have the older view of the household rather then the newer more modern household form where the women and men are both working. In my family my Dad was the one that did do the labor intensive job while my mom stayed home doing the errands and running the household. For me this was normal, my family functioned well and happily, my mom liked being able to take care of the kids and look after things. In the essay I did not like Russell made women seem inferior and that women's jobs in the house were easier and less strenuous. Many say that working in the home is harder because its a full time job with no breaks you cant go home from it, where as at work your job is left when you leave the building.

One thing that I did not like about the essay was that he called women victims and the men prosecutors. Grant you in some situations this can be true. However, in the past I do not think that men were trying to dominate women and victimize them rather then take care of them and give them what they needed. Also I do not think that men need to "live" with or regret their past, they worked and took care of their family there shouldn't be anything shameful about that.

I think that his point in the last half of his essay had a good point when he talked about how the daughters of the wealthy looked at him and saw only the powerful rich man. So many times people cannot look past stereo type of where people come and where they are. Since he was in a college he became a rich man while in fact he was just a lower class citizen on scholarship.

I believe that men and women shouldn't try to "out do" one another or try prove themselves rather work together and know that no matter what job career or title you obtain you have to work for it and deal with responsibility.