History in Living Colour - Friday, Period 3 (Week 4)

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"Okay, change of plan." He'd given up working on this week's program in exchange for trying to figure out how exactly he'd become a woman. He got carried away. "Genghis Khan will join us later in the semester. Instead, after yesterday's little oddity, let's talk about that. Pick a historical event that you know of. Doesn't have to be on Earth or this universe. Something from home if you'd like. Anything you want. Now have a good think about it and I want you to tell the class what you think would have gone differently if the people involved had their genders swapped. Male, female, none of the above, all of the above, any gender you can think of. Would Shakespeare have been so popular under a king instead of a queen? Would the Roman Empire have grown so far under a female leader? Would it have fallen?"

At the end of class, he added, "Wear something you can run in next week."

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Re: Discussion Topic - Gender Changes

[likethegun]

"I think more recent, non-warfare historical events wouldn't have changed much if the players were a different gender. Like the moon landing," Sam said. "It just would have been one giant leap for womankind instead."