Thursday, April 25, 2002
more gender issues, redux
I'm having those gender questions in my head again. I think they're somehow related to the sun -- the more sun outside, the more questions inside. And my field of interest at the moment just happens to -be- gender stereotyping, so my questions go in that direction.
And if that was any more cryptic, it'd be in code, I know. Let me clarify.
I'm not questioning sexual orientation or anything like that. I know who I am and what I like and what I don't and let me tell you, Kinsey would be proud. None of this is about sex, except maybe on a primal, unconscious level.
I'm questioning the socially-coded reactions we have to someone based on what gender they are/identify with. And I'm wondering if that sort of thing is, in fact, mutable -- if our binary thoughts on it (either man or woman with no inbetween) are just plain wrong, and what that would mean to our innate/social coding. I notice that, when I think I'm talking to a woman, I do things differently than I might with a man, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly is different, and how it got that way.
Since I have trouble remember what exactly I had for breakfast most days, much less the factors of my childhood which might have affected my attitudes toward the male/female/somewhere inbetween dynamic....this is a long and confusing process.
Add to that that I'm trying like hell to get IQ #6 done, while simultaneously trying to finish the forthcoming product and keep atop of orders/subscriptions/one-shot buyers and their email...and you've got a busy little bit of mental clutter.
Anyone have any good techniques on learning to focus? Any easy answers? I could use some easy right about now.
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Posted by beth @ 12:12 PM PST [Link]
