You described so well all this questions that we need to realized at the end of this class. I was raised extremely conservative and to have the freedom to cut some chains of thought during this class I found extremely liberating. I realized this class is a great tool to utilize to help shape our children for a better more understanding society. I’m already applying in full a lot of ideas to my personal life as well as my interaction with others.
Thanks for sharing so many wonderful post!!!
I enjoy all your posts and I'm glad you enjoy this class as much as I did.
This class had a big impact in my life as well and you are correct to say that some classes just leave empty when it comes to real life teachings. This class provided so much information and to get to know people with their posting in their blogs seems impersonal but it is the total opposite.
This is awesome. I always believed that it is something related with the DNA of each person. Information, journals and studies like this are getting closer to give some answers.
I once read about a pregnant woman who was carrying twins and she had a car accident. The impact was only in one side of her body and after that one of her twin girls switches to be men in adult life. Some doctors had theories that it could have been the stress in pregnancy and the released of hormones during the accident.
Incredible findings...thanks for sharing.
I experience this subject every day. I stay home and most of the people who are staying home around me are Dad’s. They have made the choice to stay with their children. It is beautiful to see it. They are as involved as mothers. Perhaps need a little more training in a couple things. However, they have no support when it comes to play dates and gatherings together with other moms’. I have tried my best to do it but you can always encounter attitudes from their wives. It is understandable that having mix sex play dates could create a whole other issue in these subjects. I’m hopeful that someday it could be a normal standard for the benefit of the children.
Great Post Glenn!!!! I agree with Dorit’s reply.
It is difficult to imagine that if someone wants to express love have to be kick out from a facility. I understand that there are conduct codes for public places in different states but it doesn’t make it right. I come from Miami were Miami Beach has one of the biggest gay communities and it is normal to show affection in public anywhere no matter what category you are. I understand is complicated for a parent to explain why some couples are same sex and all the details surrounding the topic but I believe is the right time to target the issue. I have already spoken about several subjects with my daughter and the more she knows according to age the better understanding children can have. They see displays of affection on TV all the time too… The less communication and knowledge, the more people will be shock when it happens in their surroundings. Even heterosexual couples are either exhibitionist and others are not. The blame is the fear of people to think that it can be contagious!!!
I really think is the people you are with not the place or location.
You might wonder what this title is got to do with gender –stereotype. Something happened this weekend that change my perception of men.
For father’s day, I went to a Tyler Park in PA (http://www.bucksviews.com/Parks/Tyler/Tyler.htm), enjoy a great BB-Q with my family and after spending sometime cooking and enjoying each other’s company we decided to go for a walk to the dam and the pedestrian causeway. We enjoy the water, the view and some ice cream, etc. Meanwhile, there was a Dad with his daughter and another little girl about 6 years old. The two girls were playing in the water but somehow they started to get closer to the current of the creek. Her dad was talking to them to return but the girls were not capable of doing that. The current took them and suck them under water very quickly. There are about ten families around looking and observing what is happening.
I waited to see if her Dad was going to go after the girls but he didn’t. My internal voice told me “Alex, if you don’t jump in, the girls will drown," so I did. I jump into the water trying to get the first girl but most amazingly my sister jump in too to get the second kid. Struggling with the current and trying to get them floating was very hard. The children were so panic that all they wanted was get in top of our heads. Once we were under the bridge, it got deeper and it was still hard to get the girl floating. Swallowing water trying to let the little girl get more air than me was quite stressful because I have never been in a situation like this before and knowing that my sister is doing the same was very astonishing…How could we both be here in this situation??? . Everyone was observing what it was happening. I was starting to get worry that I might have to let go of the girl soon to catch my breath. Then, I heard my five year old boy talking to me and checking on me very clear like he was talking in my ear and that made me realized that If I could hear him, I was fine. My survival mode quick in and I was no longer scare after hearing his words. I gather my strength and grabbed the girl, turned her around, and immobilize her by getting her by the neck. She finally relax and I was talking to her while this is happening, to give her piece of mind. I was pretty much chocking by the time we crossed the bridge. Finally, this huge tall guy jump in and gets my girl from my arms and my sister made it to the other side.
After everything that happened that night, I had so many questions. I wonder why not men jump in??? Why people were frozen when everyone new clearly there was danger? Why her Dad didn't jump in and why he wasn't careful enough to see the danger coming??? They were sings of No Swimming everywhere but still he let the girls go deep enough.
Do men have different instincts that women?? Or Some men just don’t have paternal instincts??
A lot of these videos are shown and advertized sexually to get more momentum online. They have underage fighting girls in bathing suits and some of these children before getting into a fight use drugs and get drunk.
A CNN article mentions: In 2003, 25 percent of high school girls said they had been in a physical fight in the past year, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The figure for boys was 40.5 percent.) A Justice Department report released in 2006 showed that by age 17, 21 percent of girls said they had assaulted someone with the intent to cause serious harm.
Do you think these fighting patterns have increased due to violence in the media? Or the internet is creating a problem with gossip and conflicts that children can’t defend themselves and need to detonate by fighting??
I think women are more aware now in how much work and dedication goes into a child. Having the option to have one could make anyone insecure of doing the right thing. It is a matter of choice if you want to have your children early in life or if you want to dedicate your life to a full time career. Doing both is hard and demanding, women are perfectionist and raising kids have become a very competitive job in our culture. Once they have dedicated their lives to a job and realizing that it is not extremely fulfilling they try to search for a husband and quickly have a family but sometimes a lot of this quick fix ups come with a price. However, women had become healthier and are able to carry babies even in their fifties and sixties. Perhaps our bodies are getting stronger!!!
I disagreed. I started watching this show from the first season before people got excited about watching four females discussing their sexual activities. There was no other show on TV at the time that could give women this view. After the first season, everyone was hooked, just like the men were hooked to The Sopranos. I believe this show revolutionized the perception that women also think like men when it comes to relations and sex (Our inner masculine side). How independent women can play and treat men the same way they do. Having to watch up to the third season, I realized - it had become a little to commercialize for my taste. Seeing develop the four characters from the beginning of the season to the movie, makes me happy that it took a TV show to give women an outlet to show what really happens in our brains when it comes to interaction, relationships and social behavior. They have all the stereotypes: The Career driven, the fairy tale believer, the go getter and the realistic. Most of the women could at least sympathize with one of these characters or perhaps all of them this is why this show was so successful with women and men.
Yes, I was aware of this kind of horror. I also know that China is having a lot of problems having unbalance communities because they have so many males in certain cities that they have no women to compensate the male demand to get a partner. These groups of men are becoming violent and very hostile. The government doesn’t want this kind of behavior so they are starting to let more baby girls survive. However, the damage to their society has already been done and the consequences are showing right now by not having enough females. Right now females are in demand and they are allowing more boys to get adopted. This is such a cold hearted topic…I’m glad you posted this subject. I’m not watching the Olympics this year on TV. There is so much madness in the world.
I love your post…I believe that mistakes and assumptions are made because of categorizing people or perhaps judging to quick. I also believe that American culture give more importance to youth than to elders. I come from a place were grandmothers and older people are idolize by being old and accomplishing so much through their lifetime. I feel people live longer lives in other places but here elder people are neglected. It is sad that getting old becomes such struggle and burden in family members but when it is the opposite is beautiful. It is about emphasizing early values in our children so the respect for elders is not lost. It is so important to get the wisdom and knowledge that older people carry. Is like a box of chocolates to me!!!
My eighty-year-old grandfather recently went to Six Flags and did one of the craziest riders and he loved it. I was proud of him for doing that but after three heart attacks you will think he would be cautious….
Forever Young in spirit!!!!
I show love in so many different ways. Not only by expressing, communicating and touch but also doing simple things in a general basis. Expressing love means being they’re, offering a hand, praying for the well being, showing kindness, compassion, care, and joy. Communicating it is a little more difficult because the power of the word is sometimes misinterpreted by many but when is done with the purpose of love is always magical. Besides the spirit, Love can also be express physically; sharing your body consciously with someone can create more love.
Love is such a broaden word, the meaning and purpose of the word has an infinite context. It is the reason why we thrive as human beings and why we exist. If we learn how to incorporate love in to body, mind and soul we could all be bless by the power that contains!
Looking at the dicctionary for the word LOVE. I realized that from all the fifteen meanings described, the best that fits my believes about this subject is:
“Unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”
(Webster’s Dictionary)
Love everyday!!!!
The other day I went to the bookstore and while looking for a good title, I started noticing that most of the women authors where at the bottom of the shell. Except for the Bestseller section where the books are all mix. I was very disappointed that most of the tittles about war and politics were arranged this way. Currently there are 16 women serving our country as senators out of 100 and a record number of women, 61 hold seats in the House of Representatives. Just to get some numbers straight “35 women in the United States Senate since the establishment of that body in 1789, meaning that out of the 1,897 Americans who have served in the United States Senate since that time, 1.85 percent have been female” (Wikipedia). Also, I’m not taking in consideration all the female journalist that are covering the war and sometimes we don’t hear anything about them or the reports don’t make it to TV or Newspapers. Sporadically, you see some women in primetime news covering the war.
Knowing that Hillary Clinton will be ending her campaign this Friday, makes me think that in general Americans are not ready to see women take such a position in the political arena. Her resume was amazing, her experience incredible but she had to fight her gender stereotype. An ex-president’s first lady which the media had a field day calling her names, criticizing her wardrobe, image enhancements in the media, etc., made this campaign very difficult to absorb.
This campaign teach me that they’re still a lot of work for women to do when it comes to be involved in any level of politics. Even Clinton that had such reputation had to break stereotypes of all kinds not only in the male vote but female vote. “Her problem wasn't that she was a feminist. Her problem was that she wasn't feminist enough (O'Rourke). Also, being the first women to run for president people were eager to see some kind of revolution but she did not have it, only straight politics with and agenda and being equal to his opponents. No matter what she had a disadvantage compare to all the men including poster boy Obama.
Her message was so clear about breaking out from any type of Democratic Party influence. She was encourage to withdrawal, to end her campaign early, to give Obama the green light early on but she refuse because the point needs to be absorbed and probe that she is an equal player and if there was to be a men in her place this perhaps would have not drag this long. She has empowered a lot of women in America. It is not about your personal struggles is about who can do the job.
Why women points of view about war and politics are not taking serious through out the years? How come so many other countries have elected women as President and United States still so far behind?? Are we extremely sexist country??
