SHOWS

I love nothing more than watching television shows. Whenever I am feeling stressed out or under the weather I turn to television. It is a place that my brain can just stop thinking and I can focus on what is going on, on the screen. This is not a new habit; I have had it since I was little. Watching television has definitely impacted how I view close relationships and how I act in them. As I read the chapter I realized that I follow a more masculine pattern when it comes to close relationships, a more dismissing avoid-ant tactic. When looking back at all of the show I watch I realized it is the pattern of the female leads, that they, to an extent, are also more masculine in the relationship. I feel like it has molded my sense of relationships. It is insane how much media affects us not only in the moment but in long term as well. When reading Mark's statement on page 210, all I could think was AMEN, in my previous relationships I have felt the same, why do we need to talk about it forever, instead we should live it. I feel like I understand myself better in relationships now, and know what I need to work on to make them more successful. 

Whose gettin' schooled?

1 +1 = ?

In the beginning of chapter 8 it posed the question "Do boys perform better than girls in high school math classes?" From personal experience my first response would have been yes, boys do. I have never been good at math no matter how hard I try. It is something that I have always wondered about. As I read through the chapter I learned that boys in the past have scored better than girls, but now it is equal.I found this to be interesting. This week another video went viral on youtube. To my surprise it was someone I had grown up. Her husband had posed the math question how long would it take you to travel 80 miles going 80 m.p.h. I was very impressed at how deep Chelsea thought about the question. She had some good formulas started, but came up a few minutes short. I felt that because she had been expected to get the math problem wrong, that she was going to...

A Gender-ed Tom Boy

As I read the Ms Article about baseball it made me think back to my years of being part of a team. When I started to play it was on a coed team, and it was not competitive at all. Most people on the sidelines laughed more than they cheered, as children ran to the wrong base or the missed the ball as they child sat in the grass. However as I started to advance through my softball career, things started to become much more competitive. I had joined an All Star team that traveled all over and competed. It was no longer about having fun, it was about WINNING. No one cared about looking cute, it was about getting down in the dirt. I feel that because of my experience with competitive sports, I have characteristics that fall aide more on the masculine side. That particular experience along with many other similar ones has shaped my style of communication. As I have studied the different gender roles and how we become this way, I have found how much our youth influences are future. It is interesting to see how different modes of play and activities shape our gender, which decides many factors in our lives to come.