Blog Post # 2. On Lorber's perspective.

From the starting gate, Lorber stresses the ambivalence the consensus projects on the whole gender role debacle. For example, my sister, sauntering to the fridge from a nap, and me, gazing at a screen, having been in this class for a mere iota of time, and feeling facetious so i start inquiring her about how when she was a kid our mother would dress her up for her birthdays. 'She always did that' She said, among other things, just another sedated afternoon, dispirited banter.

'And how did that make you feel?' I asked, but monotone, like a kid playing video games while warding off questions of homework, and feeling like a hack shrink or a hack analyzer.

'I don't know, i felt it was normal i guess.'

A few seconds later.

'oh your doing gender roles right?' Desert dry inoculation, to graduate herself in a few months. 'why is it that men do that and women are posed as this and...' etcetera. The crux of her mumbling refutation basically non-chalant on the whole analysis scheme. Her positing sound. It got me thinking. Over-thinking is the flaw of handling the whole gender roles. It's shrill, overbearing, even to a independent women as my sister, to rail against men in the gender role topic. The thing is that people, without ever knowing it, allow their intelligence, their ego, their reason, their persona to overpower the way for a concrete solution. Fausto-Sterling, for all her knowledge, comes off as a petulant feminist, lambasting men for their arrogance when she engages in identical smugness. Informative but off-putting. Lorber is a little more open-minded. Acknowledging the futility of of being unbiased. Herself admitting to mistaking genders from time to time. My whole argument revolves around being less of a retentive analyzer, a woody allen female variant, and being more active. Active by pushing for maturity. For people to rise above the handicaps through--hate to say it-- love. This is something that took me a long time to learn. It's easy to point fingers. It's the same thing with race. Prejudice exists. Sexism exists. Let's not kid ourselves. Everyone has the capability of being the people we hate the most. But instead of solely addressing the problem, discoursing on descriptions to death (we know that's what philosophy majors love to do--sorry, i'm taking potshots because at this other class there a few opinionated blokes who have sabotaged the whole manner of there being God or not) why don't we take simple acts to just transgress? instead of letting our egos raze the future? I'm already tired of analyzing. Get's old quick
An expansion of men's role in our society.An expansion of men's role in our society.An expansion of men's role in our society.