Gender

This week in my Family Relations class, we have talk about gender and gender typical behaviors. Lets look at some comparisons. Females tend to be social, have relational orientation, communication empathy, and are cooperative and nurturing. Males on the the other hand tend to be a little more aggressive, have spacial orientation, and are competitive. However just because males have these, doesn't mean they don't have a sensitive side. Some guys more than others, and that's not a bad thing. Us women tend to like it when guys are a little sensitive to things! G. Steiham said "We badly need to raise our boys more like our girls." Whether we think this be in behavioral ways or not, I think it could be a good thing. Some guys should be a little more sensitive about things in general, but they still need to keep their manly side. Maybe this means training them at a young age that it's okay to show emotion once in a while. Coming from a family of 4 kids, I am the youngest and I have 2 older sisters and 1 older brother. So, he has been around girls his whole life and has learned some of the ways of how we do things and how we act and respond. I wouldn't say he is super emotional, but I almost feel like he is sensitive to things. According to the family proclamation to the world, we see a few attributes on each side that we are primarily responsible for. Men are to provide, preside, and protect. Women are primarily responsible for nurturing. Men and women are very different in their actions and what they each like, and how they do things. We often say that women have a capacity of knowing more things at once and men are more likely to do only one thing at a time. Which I think is pretty true! Right? Men also hold in their emotions more than women do, and when something happens they generally don't want to talk about it, whereas women share it with everyone. If you want to see a little more about this, watch this video on YouTube! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KrOZe2SxoQ

Another topic to discuss on Gender, is those that are Gay. A statement we have heard, is to get rid of homosexual and replace it with gay. Making it a part of everything, and also making it mean happiness. Now often times, those that do choose to be gay are happy because that's what they want and that's the life they are happy with, and we should respect that. There are some theories or phenomenons out there that can help explain why some have chosen this route. They include, possible abuse in the home, gayness being genetic, or maybe too much hormone in the brain when in the womb. There are countless reasons why someone could be gay, and these are just a few. Dean Byrd once said "It really matters what we call something." He also goes on to list 3 things that that could be. It could be: same sex/same gender attraction, homosexual that is sexualized in some way, or that gay has been taken on as an identity. All of these can describe someone and what they have chosen to be. Some have even chosen to go the route of transgender, and have changed to the opposite of what they were. Whatever someone may be, that is their choice and we cannot change it.  If we look at younger kids for example, we see that girls have the tendency to play with dolls and draw pictures of flowers and pretty things, whereas the boys are going to play football and play with cars and trucks. And if a boy were to stay stay in from recess for instance and hang out with the girls and do things with them, he is going to get made fun of, and then he tends to not be "one of them". It's okay for a boy to do this! Just because he is playing with girls and isn't doing the typical "boy" stuff, that's okay too. Gender today has become so many different things, and it's something we should respect. We can't change anything, and people can use their free agency today to choose.