"Gender and Sex Roles"

The main topics in Trifles of Susan Gaspell are the gender and sex roles, two aspects that are still being a problem in actual time. As we see in the story, women are often considered to be mere trifles, unimportant issues that bear little or no importance to the true work of society, which, of course, is being carried out by men.

As we have heard on Beyonce’s popular song, “Flawless”: “But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, and we don't teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors Not for jobs or for accomplishments Which I think can be a good thing But for the attention of men We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings In the way that boys are Feminist: the person who believes in the social Political, and economic equality of the sexes”. Men is seen as the powerful superior leading person in a family, and women the person that takes care of the home and the kids. This perspective is really wrong. In the past weeks Puerto Rico had a dilemma about gender perspective in which they wanted to teach little children that there are no such thing as a color for a girl or a toy for a boy.

                                 

What really captivate my attention in trifles are the two distinct narratives, one male and one female. Both trying to solve the crime, but because the men do not expect the women to make a contribution to the investigation, they are disinterested in the women’s astute impressions and valuable findings that solved the murder case.

Women have raised me, my mom is a dental assistant, and my grandmother is a lieutenant. I respect the women gender because I’ve seen the power women can have in society. How my grandmother had at her time more power than many men in the police department. Women have the same power that men have, stereotypes should be broken, and we should start working more for the benefit of our country.