Whose backpack?

Walking by a school I saw a mom saying goodbye to her son and her daughter around 10 and 11 years old. She shouted to the boy: 

Hey, Pedro! Carry your sister’s rucksack! 

It’s too heavy for her! 

He rolled his eyes but obeyed. His sister was quite tall for her age and went on to the school gate happily free-handed waving at her friends. 

The boy had one rucksack on each shoulder and strolled behind his sister 

clearly annoyed. 

This same mother and daughter are sure the sort of people

that discuss emancipation 

and the women’s ability of 

doing everything men can do 

except peeing standing up and carrying rucksacks.

I caught myself thinking how ridiculous this was. The girl was almost the same size as her brother, why would he have to carry her backpack? 

That's when women learn to depend on men. 

That's when girls learn to ask for help, instead of trying it by themselves! 

They learn to blink with the eyes, put their necks in a weird angle and

 in a whiny voice ask for things. 

I'm sure at home this boy 

doesn't have to help doing the dishes. She's the girl, right? 

So she does the dishes and he carries her bag. 

Another mother, 

passing by the school  with her younger son, who was carrying his huge backpack by himself saw the situation and commented it loudly: 

How ridiculous! 

This big girl can't carry her bag by herself? 

Tsss! Shaking her head she walked away. 

I couldn't agree more. I thought: See! I'm right. This mother agrees with me. 

One should just learn how to carry one's backpack.

When I got to the corner I saw this same mother again. 

Carrying her son’s backpack.