Brute fact vs Social fact

Coming to college several of my guy friends have jokingly said to me “Oh you’re just here to get your Mrs. Degree”, meaning I’m only in school to find a husband. We all know that half of the time you jokingly insult someone, deep down you might actually mean what you are saying. I don’t know if this is just a stereotype, but I feel that it coincides with what they thought was a brute fact of women being the ones that stay at home while the men were off “bringing home the bacon”. Women were the ones that stayed home to cook and clean and take care of the family, while the men went to work to make the money. That might have been the social norm back in the 50’s, but times have changed. Today you see more women in the work force that went to college and got their degrees to become doctors, lawyers, or the head of a big company. You might even see the roles reversed in this day and age where the women go to work and you have a stay at home dad instead, or both parents work and share the responsibility of taking care of their family. It’s not just a one sided thing where the women hold the sole responsibility of the children because she is female and the man is responsible for providing the money and keeping the family stable financially because he is male. Most of us have broken out of what was thought of as a brute fact but was actually just a social fact, and learned to balance our everyday tasks set for a man or a woman. As for the Mrs. Degree jokes I plan to laugh them off as they are thrown at me, but I’ll be the one laughing when I have the college degree and the job.