I normally walk to and from work (it's just under a mile from my house) and on the way I pass a national pizza chain's shop, which delivers. Yesterday while going home at about 6:25 one of their delivery cars was pulling out, and I saw that it was a young woman driving.
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Thoughts on women in US society behind the cut )
Even what I just said could be taken as-- women should "perform" being male, in order to be treated better/more secure. But that's just goofy. Why can't all ways be okay?
Watching the PBS special on the women archaeologists who brought up the early human finds out of a cave, I was struck by how judgmental my fleeting thoughts were. The work they were doing was dangerous, and required a high level of intelligence and education. So when they brought up the first finds, some of the women cried, and the older, bear-like man who was heading the team (but wouldn't fit down the hole) hugged them all with relief. My first reaction was to think 1. Professional women don't cry, and 2. That looks unsavory for a male superior to hug his employees. Then my next thought was-- whoa that's a lot of assumptions about gender and behavior that I've just made.
No conclusions-- just more pondering.
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