There were six questions on the board when class arrived today. If anyone read them, they'd have a pretty good idea what was going to be the subject this week
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Questions!onepunchguyOctober 20 2011, 19:14:06 UTC
Write these down, from one through six, with your own preferred level of anonymity and/or truthfulness:
1. Have you ever systematically considered how you developed your gender identity? 2. How are your gender identity and expression still informed or affected by your experiences growing up? 3. What messages do you send to others regarding what it means to be a "boy" or a "girl" or a "man" or a "woman"? 4. How did (has) your schooling play into your understanding of what it meant (means) to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman? 5. Have you ever been ridiculed or denied an opportunity for doing or saying something that others didn't consider "masculine" or "feminine" enough? How did that make you feel? How did you react? How did it affect your life beyond that single incident? 6. Have you ever ridiculed someone else for doing something you didn't consider "masculine" or "feminine" enough?
Re: Questions!harpy_daughterOctober 20 2011, 19:28:27 UTC
Surreal wasn't even going to write them down. She tilted her head slightly and stared at the board in sheer confusion.
"What is a gender identity?" she asked aloud, not bothering to raise her hand or caring if she interrupted her fellow students. "Gender expression? What do those have to do with systems?"
Re: Talk to the TAsharpy_daughterOctober 20 2011, 19:29:31 UTC
Surreal was very much there, but someone was going to have to explain human conceptions of gender - and not get laughed at - before she was going to be of any use to anyone.
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1. Have you ever systematically considered how you developed your gender identity?
2. How are your gender identity and expression still informed or affected by your experiences growing up?
3. What messages do you send to others regarding what it means to be a "boy" or a "girl" or a "man" or a "woman"?
4. How did (has) your schooling play into your understanding of what it meant (means) to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?
5. Have you ever been ridiculed or denied an opportunity for doing or saying something that others didn't consider "masculine" or "feminine" enough? How did that make you feel? How did you react? How did it affect your life beyond that single incident?
6. Have you ever ridiculed someone else for doing something you didn't consider "masculine" or "feminine" enough?
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"What is a gender identity?" she asked aloud, not bothering to raise her hand or caring if she interrupted her fellow students. "Gender expression? What do those have to do with systems?"
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Call it a guess.
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Mostly because Karla was stupid enough to antagonize Warlord Princes.
"You are born male or female, just like those of the Blood or the landens, correct? What does school have to do with any of that?"
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He just - predictably - agreed with the teacher about the general usefulness of the theory.
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