Monday, October 22, 2007

boys v girls blog

So how do i write with this prompt never ever really wishing i was of the opposite gender? i could go off the "cold hard facts" offered by mr. miller on the hand out, but really i see alot of them as fairly factual. Even though i never wanted to be a girl, i would have a hard time seeing why girls would want to be boys, aside from the whole being able to write our names in the snow. Girls have the whole non-verbal communication thing down, like theyve evolved beyond mans simple brains. Of course there is the whole economic downside to not being male, the glass ceiling, the difficulties in professional attaire, the having to spend a day in heels. So perhaps it is a social constraint that builds this notion of wanting to be one gender over the other, i have a hard time imagining one gender is a set "better" gender. Certainly there are, or seem to be, generalizations of attributes that one gender is more apt to master than the other. The sexist male would mention kitchen work here i think, i was more referring to attributes or jobs that fit specifically to genetic/biological differences. Though i suppose most all of those are still socially influenced...

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