Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. I will most likely buy this book before the end of the week and here's why: aside from my blabbing on about relationships and Black American Kulture, being a Christian woman and a daughter, I am a woman first!
Last week the Steve Harvey Morning show, during the 'Judgement Mondays" segment a gay/homosexual/lesbian (gotta get all the right terms in there these days) asked a question literally INFURIATED me!! She was married, to a woman, but had conceived a child in a previous relationship with a man. Her 'wife' signed the birth certificate as the "father of the child", anyway this 'Woman" was trying to figure out how she could go after the birth father for child support!!!! GASP! I was confused at the double standard... but very intrigued at how situations like this one will play out in the court systems as we set precedents and basically alter the gender code in America.
I, personally, hope that incidents such as this one will provide some relief to fathers or men who get 'trapped' by women who, while the 'gettin-was good', were very willing to have a purely physcial relationship but then when things change, i.e. pregnancy want to have a baby with a man who NEVER intended on having a child with them!!! However, the book made me realize how even when the tables are turned and traditions are threatened men still have the upper hand!!! it could very well help women's rights when same sex couples--- men in same sex relationships begin to experience the hardships associated with female gender roles... maybe when Josh and Eric have to find sitters and are up all night fixing bottles or in the emergency room at 4:35am because of an ear-ache or 103 degree fever-- we'll get the maternity leave, fair treatment and pay as the 'husbands' and male heads of households enjoy now.
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