Of course, the fifties are long gone. Because now women have jobs. And its not being a domestic engineer. Women don't consider having a job beneath them.

But for some reason, people think that being a housewife is the lowest job you can ever have. I don't understand this way of thinking at all. Just because you're not making money, doesn't mean its the worst job in the world. It just bothers me that in order to command respect you have to get degrees. And those same people who study their whole lives to get a degree don't even know how to make plain rice. Or how to clean and organize the house. Because somehow this job is beneath them.

In fact, you rarely ever see the husband taking on the homemaker role. And if they do, they're ridiculed. In my 7th and 8th grades, there was a boy I knew who used to love to cook. He really wanted a cooking class as part of our curriculum (He was the only boy who wanted it). But I also remembered how all the boys in my class used to be unkind to him because apparently "cooking is girly", never mind that a lot of the famous chefs out there are guys.

In my house, its even worse. The extent of what my brother does is like vacuum once every four months when my mom tells him to. When my brother is finished vacuuming roughly two rooms my mom starts praising him as if he passed his MCAT. My dad is far worse. Unlike my brother, who puts things back where they belong, and puts things the way it was before he came (Which is basically all I ask for), my dad leaves everything sitting out there.

This morning, I found a knife with banana smeared all over it lying on the island kitchen table. I found a bowl of cherries taken out, and the seeds and stems spat on a half plate lying there. And at least five cups that once held tea in it all strewn around. There are probably more outside... We do tend to lose cups here and there. Oh and a bunch of books lying around the place. And then he comes up to me and says I need to organize the place because its dirty. I CLEANED THE HOUSE THE DAY BEFORE!! Do you seriously see something wrong here?! Its not that hard to rinse a plate and put it in the dishwasher.

It's like men consider housekeeping beneath them or something. I don't mind cleaning the house regularly, but the fact that you just have to mess everything up after we're all done cleaning the area drives me insane. Isn't cleanliness supposed to be half of our Iman?