Today in class, we had a student, Larissa, who grew up in a Greek Orthodox family and how she sees the relationship between Gender and Religion. This reminds me the first time I had interaction with a Greek Orthodox family when I was hitch-hiking to the Grand Canyon. They were my first hitch-hiking experience. The father is a father at a Greek Orthodox church in New York City. We spent about 2 hours in the car talking about religions and the church of Greek Orthodox.
One thing that I observed is that the father and the son made all the decisions, from when to stop, what do read in the car, and to which way to drive do. The mother was just sitting there enjoying chatting with me and acting a more caring role. She is more like a assistant. I felt like she has the best job ever, in which is telling people how beautiful they are and sharing laughs with everyone that she knows. (She kept telling me I am beautiful.. and I have beautiful eyes...) Her job is to make people feel warm and happy. But did she choose to do this? Could she work from 9-5 in a office rather than helping her partner? I feel like Larissa is right. I don't think she had the choices or she never thoughts there would be any other choices anyways. So is this also an example of oppression? I don't think she suffer from the traditions or the policies that made by that religion. But Oppression is also hard to see. What do you think?
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