Princess

Something we brushed on a little bit during in class discussion was how we treat women as princesses subconsciously promoting the stereotype that woman don't need to take care of themselves because they have people who do that for them. I found this relevant to how my mind sometimes works day to day with out even realizing it. I tend to treat women as their traditional rolls suggest, just not in a degrading way. The best and most recent example was at my brother's wedding, my dad and I along with a few other groomsmen were carrying cases of wine. Eventually joining th chain gang was my cousin's wife who decided to help and grabed a case herself. Now could be that she weights around 100lbs, but I couldn't help but laugh at the sight of her carrying this case and I felt, very strongly in fact, that she shouldn't be carrying that case of wine. Didn't look right, looked like a joke or prank. Then I asked myself "well why does she look funny carrying a heavy case of wine? Because she is a woman, and she's too pretty to be carrying that heavy case. Well that sounds sexist." This internal debate had me contradicting myself left and right, so I just dropped it and put it in the back of my mind.
Now it has crept up again, did I really think it was wrong for her to be carrying that case of wine because she was "too pretty." No I didn't "think" it was wrong I "felt" it was. Seems silly when I say it out loud, but I have a strong feeling deep in my gut that a man should have been carryiong that for her. Not that she couldn't handle the weight, or that that she looked manly or ugly doing physical labor...it just didn't look right.
So I'm going to blame this un-easy feeling of seeing a pretty woman doing hard labor as unsettlling on the Pink Princess culture. Based on the fact that I have nt come to these conclusions out of logic or critical thinking, but they are actual feelings I have. When my thoughts contradict my feelings I assume the feelings come from a norm that was developed sub-consciencly. Some may refer to it as me being sexist, I prefer to think of it as chivalrous. So I think I will continue to carry heavy object for women just as much as I open doors (always), because that just who I am and what feel right. Thanks Princess, your a Peace (Mario Cart reference).