Tuesday, August 28, 2012

That isn’t really what boys do… is it?


The volunteers that stood up today and depicted their interpretation of what a situation about the opposite gender brought a lot of insight to me on the finesse  that is associated with doing a gender well or correctly. Something our class elaborated on that I believe could only be done in such an environment was how the opposite gender has difficulty picking up on those differences. This related back to the Connell reading well because of the association with the differences that are within gender. In the conversation we all truly understood where we are coming from as academics when discussing the topic. We found from this exercise that there will be many things that we will have to rely on people of the opposite gender to explain to up because it is difficult to truly understand only though readings. The reading additionally incorporated cultural differences and practices, and in the upcoming weeks it is going to be interesting to view how peoples upbringings will effect the way they view the gendered conversations we have.

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