It's an age where, at least in the United States, pretty much anything can be delivered home. All the way from pizza, through dinner, into groceries and upto furniture. You don't ever need to step out of the house, everything can be brought, either free for for a fee, right upto your doorstep. Even services are to be had right at one's doorstep - the cable company, the plumber, the electrician, the carpenter, the car mechanic - you name them, and they are there for you, just a phone call away.
Most stuff can be done online, and when it can't be done online, it can be done by someone coming to your home, to do the job for you.
I had food delivered today for lunch - why? Because I'm lazy. The reason is not important. The food will last me three days, because apparently, I eat like a bird (pecking away at stuff rather than engorging on it, but whatever), but that isn't important either. What matters is I made a phone call, and somebody brought food home for me.
That somebody was a guy. I've had and seen tons of stuff delivered all over the place, and here's the thing that gets me - it's always a guy. I've never seen stuff delivered home by a girl. The pizza delivery - by a guy (and I've been eating pizza for about ten years now). The food I order - delivered by a guy. The furniture I ordered - delivered by two guys. Even UPS and Fedex deliveries - I have always seen guys driving the trucks.
Why are there no women doing these jobs? How is it always a guy? I mean, it's possible that they are out there, that some pizzas are delivered by girls, but are they so rare that I am yet to see one?
Even in the movies and TV shows, it's always guys who make the deliveries. The only time it's a woman is when some company is trying to sex up its ads, and hence show a hot model doing the delivery job.
Here's a clue - women tend to show up disproportionately as waitresses and receptionists. I'm yet to see a male receptionist - either in the movies or in real life - and I tend to see a lot more female servers than male ones in restaurants. In movies, the servers are almost always female.
I'm not paranoid enough to go reading too deeply into this, but it is an interesting trend nevertheless.
