Good Tannen Papers

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Gender Role?

Man Burns Down House Because Wife Didn't Have Dinner ReadyUpdated: 9:26 PM May 24, 2010

SISSONVILLE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Police in Kanawha County say it's unlike any case of domestic violence they've ever seen. Sun. night, Beverly Jones says her husband of 7 years returned home from a night of drinking with friends. Beverly says her husband, Guy, became upset that his dinner wasn't ready and on the table. 
"He started throwing furniture and tore up all the glass tables," Beverly Jones said. "Then he told me I had to get out because he was going to burn the house down. He told me if I didn't get out he would burn me with the house."
Guy followed through with his threat, and a short while later, the Jones' home of 10 years was gone. The whole ordeal has left Beverly and her friends wondering why.
"Why would you burn your own things," Beverly Jones said. "If he didn't want to be with me, all he had to do is say 'I don't want to be with you.'"
For Beverly's best friend, Lana Taylor, seeing everything her friend had ever worked for go up in flames is almost too much. She says the fact it was all over Guy's dinner not being ready makes her even more furious.
"Why," Taylor said. "Why did he feel he had to burn down the house. Why was that so important? Its not like he can't cook. He can cook."
In the end, Beverly says her husband not only destroyed their home, but also their marriage.
"We're headed for divorce court just as fast as I can get there," Beverly Jones said. "I hope I don't see him again."

My gender experience.

I didnt say my gender experience because i was too shy. Ok so when i first got in the class & we talked about feminine & masculine i noticed that all of the feminine qualities everyone were mentioning was me. I was always so feminine. I mean i am a girl but wow i was the typical stereotype of a "girl". I was needy, dependant, insecure, jealous, too sensitive. Wow everything! So now i started being different and more independent. I actually went to pump gas & to the stores by myself. I could never do that before. I feel so good about myself now. I dont have to depend on anyone. Thanks to this class i am not a pushover anymore. LOL I was always so nice and such a crybaby. I got that off my chest. Even my relationship with my boyfriend is alot better. =)

Scantron portion of the final

CLICK there are 21 items on this list now.  keep checking back through Thursday this week.  Bring a big Scantron .  We will use no more than 50, but bring the one that has 100. 

Guys can have a tough time too

This has occurred to me a couple of times before...Girls, women, can be as sexualized as they want, as weak as they want, as strong as they want, as tough as they want, as soft as they want, as boyish as they want. The post(?)-feminism atmosphere in the U.S. today means women do get lots of chances to express themselves as people first, females second, as long as they are prepared to accept all ramifications of equality: i.e., the draft.

Now what about guys? Aren't guys, men, still restricted in quite a few ways from being who they want to be? Don't they actually have it tougher in some respects?

circle today - I wanted to say many things.

• I liked the person saying that no, we are not all the same we are all different - so we are the same in that we are all different.  That's more like it, paradoxical though it is.
• I liked being reminded art and creativity "comes from" those on the bottom of the ladders, any ladder.
• I liked the challenge of equality in the draft - all Israeli children serve in the army.  All of them.  Then after that, they go to college.   They are all trained and equalized in the army. Everyone then can ask of all young people:  "What did you make of yourself in the army?" There are many jobs in the army that do not involve "heavy lifting."  Of course that's easy for me to say since I am past draft age.
• I liked the air conditioner theory and the story about the cereal and the important sense of community
• I liked the assertion that somehow by being together we will be less likely to be cavalier and put others down in the future, outside this class
• I liked learning about Mamie Mobley and how she turned tragedy into love instead of into hate
• I liked how non talkers made us talkers listen. 
• I liked being reminded I only have hold of the elephant's left leg - or is it his right - not his whole.
• I liked how the bell rang and left us to continue Monday - and may we be as courageous and revolutionary as Mamie Mobley
• here is Dr. Martin Luther King on how love is the strongest force.  Watch how slowly and carefully and thoughtfully he speaks compared with speakers on TV today. 

 

sexist gap in college

look here  for every 100 men, 142 women graduated with a bachelor's, 159 women completed a master's and 107 women got a doctoral degree. 

Edutopia - George Lucas' vision

• http://educationnext.org/edutopian-vision/ 
• http://educationnext.org/edutopia-inside-george-lucas-quixotic-plan-to-save-americas-schools/

question about chapter paper

Hello everyone, can somebody tell me where we get the scantron questions that we are suppose to turn in with our chapter paper? Thanks!

The layers of gender

Which "layer" coaxed and coaxes YOU most to be womanly, manly? and straight.
Which "layer" coaxes YOU most today to undo the above coaxing? and straight.

• Self - sense of self
• Partner - S.O. or mate
• Friends - your buddies, clique.  Which friends do you choose?  those who are very M or F or who are very mixed and open?
• Family - your mom, dad, and sibs
• Neighborhood - just the "feeling" of those around you "on the street"
• Work - are you "caught" in a gendered job or in a anti-gender role at work
• School - do your teachers "get" you to be M F or straight - or to let it go
• City - does Los Angeles 'liberate' you or trap you?
• some experience - prison, army, the nunnery, parenting, abuse, love - does it coax u?
• CA - does the state "do" something to you to make you M or F or straight or gay
• USA - how does the federal government impose gender and straightness upon you 

ideology v. fact: making a villan is not solving a problem

 exerpt "poor neighborhoods ... receive very little if any government support to help improve their programs."  Let's analyze that comment:

• rich neighborhoods create foundations to help their schools
• Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)
• http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10060/1039473-100.stm
• recovery bill money skewed http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/43752102.html 
• money is allocated by # of students, not tax bracket http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100412150720AA4f6Hh 
• 48% pay no taxes
• What do we do with Theo? 

OMG I'm talking like a man!

So yesterday i was washing clothes right and i tell my bf to come help. Well he was on his PS3 and of course wouldnt listen. I got so mad & screamed at him "MAN U NEVER WANNA HELP WITH THE GIRLY JOBS!!" He looked at me & started laughing his butt off & then a second later i realized what i said. I just laughed, i couldnt believe that unconsciously i branded washing a "girls job". That's something a man would say. LOL

Bird's eye view of chs. 4&5

"Marxist", but flips order of influence: ideological, political, economic
TODAY: influence of religion in our world = ideology first
"Doing": are your ideas more influential than your circumstances
Attraction to the human spirit: Novels, friends, movies: will and the overcoming of obstacles

“Islamic feminist”?

The phrase “Islamic feminist” might sound like an oxymoron, but Isobel Coleman says ... ... in her new book, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East.  click for more http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/pc/pc100504islamic_feminism

... why we can purchase cheap items

click for the story of stuff video.  http://www.storyofstuff.com/

immigrants commit fewer crimes

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-arizona-crime-20100503,0,5543081.story

Chapter 3 discussion points

1. labor and our standard of living
2. intersectionality - novels - heroics - living life

Primitive Thinking

As I was sitting listening to a client of mine tell me what the roles of women and men are supposed to be--I found myself wondering what year are we in...!

This client was so adamant about what he saying--"I shouldn't have to tell my wife what her role is. She should know when to pick up after the baby--what to cook for dinner--how to clean to my standards. She shouldn't have to be told."

After pondering for a moment--I looked at him and couldn't help but asking him..."What year are we in?" He looked so confused, as if I was speaking a different language.

It still amazes me, although maybe it shouldn't, just how ingrained & accustomed we are in terms of defining gender. And that when it is challenged--just how miffed people can become.