My Dad and I, We’re More Alike Than We Know
I remember hating Taekwondo classes so much. Every Sunday for nine years, all through my best attempts to rebel and feign sickness. Dad made me do it. Until I received my black belt.
Now I’m glad he made me do it. At least I can tell people I have a black belt in something. And my increased lower body strength from all those years of kicking ass has been quite helpful in my newest hobby – pole dancing.
Men Need to Help
While within our respective Asian cultures each household carries its own baggage as to what they believe to be the right way to treat children, it is clear that our own formative childhood experiences play a very pivotal role in shaping our own ideas of what gender equality looks like. What we observe and learn at home, fashions our own attitudes and unconscious biases towards gender even more so than what societal norms and academic instruction dictate.