words the general populace seem to misunderstand:
squareguru:
- privilege
- consent
- misogyny
- misandry
- psychotic
- schizophrenia
- bipolar
- gender
- gender role
PRIVILEGE is a wonderful one though. people seem to think privilege on a political or sociological basis is based upon the number of people who make up a demographic. people think you are only disprivileged if you are constantly isolated or physically oppressed. negative worlds can be reinforced through positive emotions. oddly enough, that’s how abuse works much of the time.
People also seem to think gender and misandry are real things. :O
Claiming that people who use the term bisexual must be touting a rigid binary view of gender, or denying the existence of gender variant people, is as presumptuous as assuming that people who use the term “bicoastal” must be claiming that a continent can only ever have two coasts, or that they are somehow denying the existence of all interior, landlocked regions of that continent.
Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.
Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time.
In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows:
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.
The only male character in the movie who doesn’t make note of the fact that Mulan is a female. In fact, he calls her “solider.”
THE CORRECT GENDER RATIO THAT SHOULD EXIST ON ALL SHOWS.
