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Sexual Anthropology, Monday, 7/20, Period 3

"Today," Brennan said, as she passed out posterboard and markers to the students, "we're talking about gender roles, identity and stereotypes. Those are really big subjects; I can't do much more than glance at the stereotypes here in class today. If you're interested and want to keep reading, I can recommend some books after class."

"Gender roles are the set of perceived behavioral norms associated particularly with males or females, in a given social group or system. It can be a form of division of labor by gender, as in classic hunter/gatherer societies in which men go out to hunt and women watch children and gather fruits and grains, or in a modern single-income family in which the woman stays at home and the man acts as a breadwinner. Almost all societies, to a certain effect, have a gender/sex system, although the components and workings of this system vary markedly from society to society." She went on to briefly review current research into the establishment and reinforcement of gender roles in society.

"Gender identity, meanwhile, is how a person defines him or herself in terms of gender. While this usually matches physical gender, some people identify as transgendered -- a male brain in a female body, or the reverse -- or as neither male nor female. Someone who believes their mental gender does not match their physical gender may be said to have gender identity disorder."

"The last thing we want to talk about, and the basis of your exercise today, is gender stereotypes. Stereotypes are simplistic generalizations about the roles of individuals in groups that help to feed into traditional gender roles. A simple gender stereotype is 'boys don't cry' or 'women can't drive.'"

"What I would like for you to do today is, working in pairs, come up with lists of male and female stereotypes and what reinforces them. For example, if your stereotype is that women are bad drivers, you might write down that popular jokes give that message. At the end of class we'll ~~probably handwavily~~ compare the lists and see where they differ and where they overlap. I'm around if you have questions."

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As one does.

Rose Hathaway

Jack Priest

Yamanaka Ino

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Listen, take notes, etc.

This was all new to Jack, even the parts the instructor seemed to think were common sense. He all but covered a page with his neat notes.

Ino was sort of vaguely peevish today, but thankfully the class had utterly nothing to do with that and she took somewhat slapdash notes while spending her time doodling flowers around the edges of her paper.

What? Totally class worthy use of time.

So close! This was actually interesting to Esme. And of course, this was kind of dulled by the fact that she had a marker in her hand. Somehow that meant mental points were deducted.

Zayne took notes in his datapad as usual. The Masters would probably find this lesson interesting, what with their nearly even male-female split. He wasn't sure he'd be able to make any generalizations based on them, though...

Grab a partner and start making a list of gender stereotypes.

As one did, Rose glanced around for a partner.

Her first gender stereotype was probably going to be 'girls are awesome' with the reinforcement of experience. But she was mostly joking. Really.

"Partner?" Jack asked, leaning toward the girl with a slight smile. "Or do you want to work with someone less likely to be Victorian at you?"

This far from the insult, Alice's tirade was ... almost a joke. Sort of.

Rose snickered and turned to him. "I don't know. Are you going to tell me that girls don't have legs cause they're improper?"

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