An English Professor Wrote The Words

In the joke, it makes it seem as if both genders feel that they are the most important. Woman: without her, man is nothing" would be the correct punctuation of the sentence that the professor put on the board, but when I think about it further neither are correct (in philosophical terms, not punctuation wise). In a societal sense, men have traditionally been more prominent: they run the country, they support their families, and they fight the wars, while the women tend to business on the Homefront. The house work that women have traditionally been trapped into doing has always been looked over as easy work, making it seem as if women are not capable of anything more demanding. Despite this having been proved wrong countless times (i.e. women in the war effort, and the powerful women that we see in society today) the idea that a woman is only fit to mind her home and raise her children perseveres. Supposing for a moment that was all a woman had to do, why would it be considered an inferior kind of work compared to what the men are doing? A housewife cleans up after her whole family, makes all their meals, does all their laundry, and raises all of her husband's children. And she does it every day. How is that an easy job? How is that not a significant enough job to earn her some respect? She is raising her children, the children that will grow into the citizens of tomorrow, who will one day run the country. Its kinds of thoughts that I use to justify my (biased) belief that women are the superior gender, but the issue is not so one sided. A woman can't have a child without a man, and as much as we like to pretend this isn't true-women can't do everything. It would not be possible for a woman to raise her children, run her household, and tie down a full time career to support her family. I'm not saying by any means that a woman should be at home and a man should have a career, but I am saying that one person cannot do both. The man works and the woman takes care of the kids, or the woman works and the man takes care of the kids; either way both jobs have to be equally respected.