Psych of Gender, Final Paper

I only got a 95 on this.  He said it was more a social analysis than a psychological one.  He’s right.  I don’t really get the difference.  I wish I had a chance to do it over.
Discrimination As A Pathway to Violence in Enforcing Gender Norms
Angie Zapata, 18, Greeley, Colorado. Duanna Johnson, 43, Memphis, Tennessee. [...]

Psych of Gender week 7 paper 1

Psychology of Gender
Gender Outlaw, Part II
To read Gender Outlaw, one would think that Kate Bornstein has spent most of her life in a vacuum, elementally alone and only occasionally brushing against the world of another. In addressing the reactions of people in her life to her transition, what to me is as interesting as [...]

Psych of Gender Week 7 paper 2

Psych of Gender
Gender Observation and Imagination, 7-2
For my gender observation exercise I sat in a coffee shop in downtown Spokane which is frequented heavily by young adults ages 14 to 30. I found that gender differences were more exaggerated with this age group than with older adults and therefore more interesting.
One of the biggest [...]

Psych of Gender week 6 paper

Psych of Gender Assignment 6-1
Gender Outlaw: on men, women, and the rest of us by Kate Bornstein
When Kate was a small boy, she had a chair in a dark corner of the basement that she pretended was her gender change machine. She could sit in it, become a girl, and imagine great adventures for [...]

Psych of Gender week 5 paper

The assignment: Use these questions as a starting point for your paper.
1. Describe your own gender identity.
2. Describe what aspects of your own gender identity fit within the status quo, and what does not.
3. What has been expected of you with regard to your gender?
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Gender really is a social construct

Given all my reading and mental gymnastics about gender lately, it seemed appropriate that I find The Gender Analyzer on Boing Boing this morning. It scans the front page of your blog and guesses if the writer is male or female. Interestingly, it missed on me. It could be because 2 of [...]

Psych of Gender week 2 paper 2

Psychology of Gender
Sex Role Observation
I did my observations at the Spokane Valley Mall at 7:30 on Thursday night. Traffic was light, but there were enough people to make a few generalizations. For sake of clarity I will use men and women to indicate adults, and boys and girls to label teenagers.
In the food [...]

Why not just blind them?

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29
From BBC News:
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear [...]

Oops! My bad.

Violate a protection order and strangle a woman?
Claim it was an accident and that the goal was to knock her unconscious with a “sleeper hold.”
Sentence: 5 years.
Selling an ounce of marijuana will get you more time than that.
Ergo, it’s worse to get someone high than to kill a woman.
Times like this I’m ashamed to live [...]

Accessories

I was amusing myself on Yahoo by tabbing through all the photos of women in hats at the Kentucky Derby (what is with the hats, Poet?), enjoying all the different varieties, when I ran across the above photo. It names Hugh Hefner, but he might as well be there alone, because none of his [...]

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