Today's class was so far one of my favorite classes. I think that, although gender is a cultural thing, a lot of the culture and gender issues today can be solved through science and history of evolution. For example, we talked about the perfect woman before. The skinny girl with the big boobs and hips. Well, the hips have been shown to be an extremely important factor in what males find attractive. And we don't even realize it! Amazing that we are picking woman out to be attractive, obviously from some current social trends, but even more so based on an idea that was planted in the human mind probably around 200,000 years ago! I believe that a lot of the gender conflict we have today could be studied through science and brain activity and it is an interesting area to me personally.
Side Note: I think that personally biased things should be left at the door when we come into class. Especially when we have a guest speaker whom most of the class found very interesting and helpful and will only be able to talk to us once. To have the majority of the class time devoted to questions that, most of the class would argue were not of any relevance and seemed to be answered fully the first time they were asked, and then to be completely shot down on every question with proven facts, means you should probably stop asking the questions. No one will ever be able to sample all 6.5 billion people in the world in a study. I'm sorry no more ranting for the day!
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