If you haven't seen the movie Mrs. Doubtfire, I'll fill you in a bit. The movie is about a husband and a wife who get divorced. The husband decides to take on a babysitting job for his ex-wife.. only, she doesn't really know it is him. He disguises himself by dressing like an old lady. The movie is so funny and as children we watched that movie only like a million times! Anyway, the reason I caught myself thinking sociologically is because we have been talking about gender roles in class and I remember the fact that we dressed my nephew up as a girl when we were younger and that was not acceptable to my older sister. It was so much fun dressing Jared in my summer dresses and putting girly Halloween wigs on him with a tiny bit of lipstick. Sometimes we would even paint his nails (something his dad would freak out about). We truly found it hilarious as kids. But when my sister would come pick him up after work, and he was still dressed like that.. she would not be okay with it. She would laugh and say he looks real cute, but I also remember her mentioning, "If Jared turns out gay, I'm going to remember what you girls did to him!" She would blab on about how we can't teach him that wearing dresses and nail polish is okay. Well 10 years later, Jared is not gay. He has a girlfriend (unfortunately), and is doing well in school. This goes to show that some activities are more acceptable to one gender, rather than the other. In the end, we all had fun and everything was harmless!
