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