Yes, we're talking about roles and gender in general and nothing about sexist possibilities on internet sites.

My mom and dad had a reasonable idea of roles for their day and time. My mom cooked and cleaned, but she also did some physical things like mow the lawn with a riding mower (she enjoyed that), painting things around the house, etc. My dad was a farmer but he also helped take care of my sister and me. And he helped my mother in other ways when she needed it. And my mother helped him on the farm.

I'm not great cook, and I just did it to play a role in our house. My husband sometimes helped cook, too. And I liked to mow the lawn, etc.--and my husband changed many a diaper, tended the children sometimes, etc. And I tried to support him in his work.

And, as I mentioned before, I moved to part-time work after our first child was born. I think someone needs to help keep the home fires burning. Some men are fine with being house husbands, but I'm not sure many of them are.

If something happened to my husband, I couldn't remarry a man with traditional expectations about the "little woman" at home. Yuck!