I begin by referencing a video shown in class from youtube called "magic coffee table"
Within this short film, if it could be called a film, we are introduced to a heterosexual couple who we assume are dating. The opening of it shows the male sitting on the couch, where he potentially could have been for hours asking his female partner to cook him dinner because he's starving.
Firstly I feel the need to really push the thought that it is a heterosexual couple where the MALE is asking the FEMALE to cook him dinner. Just like every other gender role in the past the female is almost expectant to serve the male.
After this is asked the female proceeds into a long speech about how she has just worked another job like him and why can't he cook his own dinner, it's been a long day for her as well. The male of course interrupts this speech and tells her it will be alright and that it will work out, to which the female responds how?
Here we are introduced to a basket sitting on the counter where the male tells the female that it was magic how no matter what dirty clothes you put inside this basket they are magically cleaned and folded piled onto your bed the next day. As if this supernatural power never fails to clean his clothes and that it's been happening since she moved in but he had not wanted to jinks it.
Are you serious? you're kidding me right? The "magic" basket gets all your clothes washed and folded.
Which is actually the woman doing so after she gets home... her actions go unacknowledged and underappreciated.
Then the male tells her about the magic coffee table. No matter what kind of crap you leave on it, it is always cleaned up the next morning. Again, of course this is the female doing so.
It is here we see a very obvious ignorance to the amount of work females do around the home. Not only is she expected to contribute to the income and be independent but also she is expected to load the dishwasher, unload the dishwasher, wash laundry, fold laundry, grocery shop, cook dinner, pick up trash, all while still having time to maintain their health and be there for their significant others.
A subservient gender role portrayed in a humerous way is in no way wrong from the standards women are still held to today.
This video is probably only one example of such a couple making a joke to get the point across maybe it should be more acknowledged how much women do.
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