Forget the young gal on the flying trapeze…that was child’s play compared to Amelia Earhart…the first person (man or woman) to successfully pilot a plane from Hawaii to California. Now, that took a lot of guts…plus an airplane of that early day.
Ever since Eve had to set up housekeeping in a cave…after she and Adam were kicked out of their garden home where clothing was optional… the lady of the manor learned she was on call 24/7/365. Certainly she never had a grocery or clothing store, a baby-sitter or a house-keeper at her beck and call…while hubby brought home the bacon. She was expected to carry the kids along as she foraged for vegetation to go along with any meat Adam could muster up while she kept the home fires burning.
What a difference a day (or several centuries) has made. Momma’s work load has increased…as she now carries the baby through her old age…not just for nine months.
Today momma clips coupons; returns bottles for their refund value; checks the ads for any available sales; and wears out-dated clothing so the rest of the family can have the most modern wearing apparel… with some famous person’s name stamped everywhere including on its rear end.
Everything from a rip to a broken heart now directs its bearer toward the well-worn path that is owned by the lady of the house. In fact, if all the tears shed on her shoulders by the rest of the family were gathered at one time, there would have to be an extra ocean created besides those that now exist with well-known names like the Pacific and the Atlantic.
During the war years, men went to war…AND the women took their places in the factories of the day. Oh, they still went home and did all they had done in earlier years…thus doing their jobs at home AND now actually ‘going to work.’ Now, also, women were drafted into doing the lawn mowing, the snow removal…and anything else that reared its head and needed to be fixed. It was just taken for granted that mom could fix anything!
Unfortunately, once the men came home from the war, women were so used to doing it all…that this practice has continued until the modern days. The family expects it of her. Just look at the big muscled-sportsmen of today. When the TV camera pans to them…who do they say ‘hi’ to? Mom.
Ladies…we have to begin thinking ahead. Today we’re supposed to be equal to the men in our lives. When boys are born into our families they should be taught to do laundry duty; they need to clean up the rec-room after a night of watching the TV with their friends when all the carousing has led it to look more like a wrecked room; they need to be taught the basics in the kitchen…just as their sister have been taught for centuries. Only then will both sexes learn that jobs are no longer gender based. And, as much as I dislike admitting it, I was a bit deficient in teaching this lesson to my own kids. Yes, the boys were taught to take their turn at washing the dishes…and breaking the beans up so I could can them, but they have continued to mimic their father when he comes home, takes off his dirty clothes in the bathroom and just leaves them on the floor after he has taken his shower and changed into clean ones.
So I guess ‘fame’ has its price…even if it is just fame on a limited basis. Maybe that’s the reason our Creator gave Adam a companion. Maybe He knew someone had to be ‘invented’ to do a good job at mopping up after the rest of the family…and, if one is really lucky enough to fill this capacity…they were born…as a female. After all even dads need someone to go to to take care of the problems of the world..and only mom seems to be able to do that job in most families.
