Canada Is Not That Strange And Other Biases | Wednesday | Period 2

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Fraser was back in the classroom after a week off and feeling pretty happy about that. It helped that he was still his normal self and wasn't going to have to try and teach as a female.

"Welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful week off and I hope you also dealt with the latest round of island oddities as best you could," he began, smiling at the assembled class. "Today, we're going to take that experienced island oddness and talk about it. So, for those of you that changed and those that didn't, let's discuss biases and myths associated with the opposite sex."

Fraser's dearest wife might have had a hand in suggesting this lesson. "When you're suddenly the opposite sex, what things do you find people expect you to do? For instance, my wife decided shew as going to play with power tools because her hands were suddenly bigger. She also suggested I drink a cosmopolitan because it went with my new feminine side."

And then he'd won that little argument, of course.

"There are different things that are associated with each other gender. Some people believe males to be stronger while females are smarter. Some people believe males to be better drivers while women are more responsible. These are inherent and present in all societies I've encountered. The biases may be be different from place to place but they still exist in some way or another. So, what did you discover about the opposite sex while you were changed? Did you find that something you originally thought wasn't true? Did people treat you differently because you were the opposite gender? And if you didn't change, did you find people acted at all differently than their usual selves? Did the change in gender affect them at all besides the physical appearance? Let's discuss and please, feel free to talk with each other as well."

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Sign In [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

Like you're not quite yourself!

Re: Sign In [Canada 09/20]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie Stackhouse

Re: Sign In [Canada 09/20]

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hyuuga Hinata

Re: Sign In [Canada 09/20]

[life_inshadow]

Tara Maclay

During the Lecture [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

Feel free to do what one does during a lecture!

Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

"So, what did you discover about the opposite sex while you were changed? Did you find that something you originally thought wasn't true? Did people treat you differently because you were the opposite gender? And if you didn't change, did you find people acted at all differently than their usual selves? Did the change in gender affect them at all besides the physical appearance?"

[Feel free to ping off each other as well!]

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I didn't feel any hungrier than usual," Sookie offered. "Normally when I make food in a common room, seven boys or so show up, ravenous. And I'm pretty sure my boyfriend's stomach is bottomless. But apparently that's not universal."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

"You expecting to have a larger than usual appetite?" Fraser guessed.

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much," Sookie agreed, nodding. "My older brother and my boyfriend both never seem to be full. I was sort of expecting that all guys are like that, but not actually the case. Maybe my metabolism just stayed the same."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[glacial_queen]

"I don't know if I was more hungry than usual--" how did a bottomless pit get more bottomless? "--but I know my metabolism was even more ramped up than usual," Karla said.

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Maybe 'cause you were bigger?" Sookie wondered. "I don't know a ton about body chemistry, let alone your body chemistry."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"I didn't change," she said, picking her words. "But I noticed that several people who were... normally more temperate were less so..."

Hinata toyed with her sleeve.

"But I do not know if that is because of a difference between the genders or simply reaction to the ch-change."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

"It is a bit of a shock to wake up in a completely different body," he agreed with a light chuckle. "Those that you spoke with, were they normally even tempered?"

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[life_inshadow]

"So ... my girlfriend was the first person I saw as a boy, and we both changed," Tara offered. (They'd actually been in the same bed, but that was a little TMI for class.) "And I thought she was cute for a boy, b-but I still wasn't interested in her, um, the way I normally am. It was kind of interesting that being interested in girls didn't change when I turned into a boy."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

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"Was she the same?" Fraser wondered. "The same in that she wasn't interested in you the way she normally is because of the change in genders?"

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[glacial_queen]

"The first time I went through it, I was a lot more...frightened than I was this time," Karla said. "In my world, Craft is linked to gender and I was afraid that being in a male's body would make me less of who I am because I can't be of my proper castes when I'm male."

It had still been a worry, though less of one this time. She still wasn't sure if being a male negated her being a Queen or a Healer, but at least she'd had access to her Black Widow Craft.

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

"This time was easier?" Fraser guessed. "Or just less panic inducing?"

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"I," Ariel offered after thinking about what was the most notable enlightment about the whole thing, "have a brand new perspective on the boxers versus briefs debate that I never expected to have. And I thought it was weird that my balance was way off as a boy, but it makes...a lot of sense. If you think about it."

She shook her head, though, not wanting to think about it.

"I'm glad to be back, though."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

"You thought boxers versus briefs was a silly thing before?" Fraser guessed.

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

"I feel awfully left out of this one," admitted Sara ruefully, but . . . not entirely ruefully, "as I didn't change at all because my player slept most of the freaking day. I can't help but feel I missed out on something interesting."

She was not at all unaware of how kerflummoxed the change had left some people. Like her roommate. Rilla.

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

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"Some people might say you were very lucky," Fraser said and laughed. "The island decided to switch the genders of various occupants for two days. It was interesting to say the least."

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

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"I still don't like pants," Rilla declared grumpily, smoothing her skirts out over her knees, "and I certainly had no interest in seeing exactly what made boys and girls different."

Which made using the restroom...interesting for two days.

Re: Class Activity | Gender Biases [Canada 09/20]

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"What don't you like about pants?"

Fraser wasn't about to touch that other statement.

Fraser [Canada 09/20]

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He's around and definitely a dude today.

OOC [Canada 09/20]

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

It's gonna be a rainy, rainy day.