For as long as I can remember, growing up in my house, my father was the one who wore the pants in the family. It was a very patriarchal household. He was the breadwinner, he could fix anything broken, and he swore he knew everything, and for those reasons, he was in charge. My mother, on the other hand, was to listen to everything he said and do as he said without putting up a real fight, unless of course it called for one. She was physically his size, and yet she was meek and submissive. However, also growing up in America, I saw other households that were so very different from mine that I assumed it was just in the Greek culture that patriarchy existed-that the men "controlled" everything, including women.
             Actually, it's very common to see households like that all over Greece. So when I took this class, I was very, very surprised to see that the women in these films were actually portrayed as having a mind of their own and having strong backbones. Here I saw women who stood up for themselves and listened to their own hearts in order to be happy or, in other cases, to be able to go on with their lives. Furthermore, every movie has a male director. So these are men, who, all except for one, grew up with the Greek culture instilled in them, so I naturally assumed that they too see women as the weaker sex. However, I will admit that in every single circumstance, the woman first shows a sign of weakness before emerging as the strong woman that she really is. I will also admit that these directors instinctively added that in there because that is what the majority believes. Now, that is something that I would expect to see, considering my traditional upbringing. Conversely, I am not stating that I agree with the fact that women should be depicted as the weaker sex. I'm just simply saying that I'm "supposed" to believe that with the way I was raised. On the contrary, I really enjoyed w...