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Sensitivity Training, Thursday, October 20th

There were six questions on the board when class arrived today. If anyone read them, they'd have a pretty good idea what was going to be the subject this week.

And that they were blatantly copied from a book. Because they were way too PC for Guy to have come up with them.

"I hope you all enjoyed your vacations," he said, taking a seat on his desk. He was missing half any eyebrow and had was appeared to be a slight sunburn, so it was obvious that his vacation time was fraught with peril. Meaning it was an awesome week un space for him. "We're gonna keep talking about gender cr--stuff today. I want you all to write out your answers to each of these questions, but you don't hafta put your names on them if you're not comfortable with it."

Wiiiimps.

"Get to it."
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[identity profile] onepunchguy.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
With your most genderous face.
eyebrowgoesup: (logic give me strength)

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[personal profile] eyebrowgoesup 2011-10-21 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
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Questions!

[identity profile] onepunchguy.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Write these down, from one through six, with your own preferred level of anonymity and/or truthfulness:


1. Have you ever systematically considered how you developed your gender identity?
2. How are your gender identity and expression still informed or affected by your experiences growing up?
3. What messages do you send to others regarding what it means to be a "boy" or a "girl" or a "man" or a "woman"?
4. How did (has) your schooling play into your understanding of what it meant (means) to be a boy or a girl or a man or a woman?
5. Have you ever been ridiculed or denied an opportunity for doing or saying something that others didn't consider "masculine" or "feminine" enough? How did that make you feel? How did you react? How did it affect your life beyond that single incident?
6. Have you ever ridiculed someone else for doing something you didn't consider "masculine" or "feminine" enough?
Edited 2011-10-20 19:15 (UTC)

Re: Questions!

[identity profile] harpy-daughter.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Surreal wasn't even going to write them down. She tilted her head slightly and stared at the board in sheer confusion.

"What is a gender identity?" she asked aloud, not bothering to raise her hand or caring if she interrupted her fellow students. "Gender expression? What do those have to do with systems?"
momslilassassin: ([neu] i wear jeans!)

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[personal profile] momslilassassin 2011-10-20 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're from Karla's universe?"

Call it a guess.

Re: Questions!

[identity profile] harpy-daughter.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Crazy little Bluebell Queen? Yes," Surreal confirmed. "Although sometimes I wonder."

Mostly because Karla was stupid enough to antagonize Warlord Princes.

"You are born male or female, just like those of the Blood or the landens, correct? What does school have to do with any of that?"
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[personal profile] momslilassassin 2011-10-20 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Most humans are," Ben agreed, "but it can depend on species. Some are born without male and become female later in their lifecycles, some are born without sexual organs of any kind..."

Ben's galaxy was diverse.

"But our concept of what's masculine and feminine isn't as clearly delineated as it is in your universe."

He'd been there the first time Karla had turned into a boy and freaked out.

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[identity profile] harpy-daughter.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wait, a female can become male? For more than a day?" Cue Surreal's horrified face. "Your center of balance goes off! You have to relearn everything! How do you know who you are?"
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[personal profile] momslilassassin 2011-10-20 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, for that particular example, the species are pretty much giant slugs," Ben replied. "I've never really asked a Hutt about his or her gender identity, so I don't know how they manage the switch, but they don't seem particularly bothered by the shift."

Re: Questions!

[identity profile] exactlyaverage.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Nope.
2. Funny question. Ask me when I'm grown up.
3. I don't. I ask people questions about home or what they are doing or what they thought of the baseball game the other night.
4. I got caught in grade school playing "doctor" once. That was pretty informative.
5. Feel? No. Plenty of insults to my intelligence though.
6. Yes. And she kicked my ass for saying it.

And Jack did put his name to it. And he was pretty truthful about it. Probably because he didn't understand the point of it.

Re: Questions!

[identity profile] chief-cheerio.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
1. No, I have a life.
2. Yeah, so it kind of started when I came out and they wrapped me in a pink blanket. I don't get this question.
3. Girls get to wear skirts and play with their hair. Boys hit things more. Simple.
4. Doesn't everybody pick on the kids who don't fit in?
5. No, because I'm really careful not to seem weird.
6. Sure, hasn't everybody?

Quinn's answers were not sensitive, but she did not feel especially guilty about them.
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[personal profile] glacial_queen 2011-10-20 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't develop a gender identity," Karla grumbled. "I was born a witch into female-only castes. The end."

Mostly female-only.
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Re: Questions!

[personal profile] wrongkindofsith 2011-10-20 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Cara wrote her answers down in D'Haran script, mostly so it would make as little sense to Guy as the questions did to her.

Discussion!

[identity profile] onepunchguy.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
What experiences in your life shaped how you think about gender? Discuss with one another!

Talk to the TAs

[identity profile] onepunchguy.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
They're here!

Re: Talk to the TAs

[identity profile] harpy-daughter.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Surreal was very much there, but someone was going to have to explain human conceptions of gender - and not get laughed at - before she was going to be of any use to anyone.
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[personal profile] lockestheway 2011-10-20 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter did know what gender identity and all that was, thanks.

He just - predictably - agreed with the teacher about the general usefulness of the theory.

Talk to Guy

[identity profile] onepunchguy.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
He's here too.

OOC

[identity profile] onepunchguy.livejournal.com 2011-10-20 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*flops*
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