Different but equal

 This week has been a deep discussion on one of the more sensitive topics in today’s society and continues to be a hot topic both individually and academically.  What I enjoyed most is the way we systematically went through each topic such that the discussion was both informative while also not offensive unless someone chose to be offended by many things that were largely factual meaning that they don’t want the truth just what is convenient and easy as we often see in society today. 

From the start we began by viewing traits that are inherently more common in both males and females. One of the interesting facts that came up that make each have certain biological advantages over the other is the brain's composition. While male brains have more grey matter inherently making them have better memory capabilities females have more white matter making them naturally better at forming connections. What I like about this is many of the other facts that were brought up not because being different is bad but that it brings understanding. For example males being more spatially oriented not only explains certain things like why fitting things in a limited space like packing are easier but even the way we give directions because we understand and visualize the world often quite differently from our female counterparts. This understanding does not allow us to naturally be better at a wide variety of tasks but understanding these differences help us understand another’s perspective and at least partially why our opposite be they male or female does things so differently. This also allows us to connect better with each other because we can choose to interact in a way that speaks more to that individual.

As we continued to discuss we focused on common focus that would begin to appear as early as preschool and infancy that differentiates male and females even from a young age. For females social interactions early on with such examples as choosing to play with dolls where they interact with each other and others as well as the nurturing nature as shown by how it is common for female children to pretend to be mom and to take care of their own babies. An connection with the early connection ability further enhances their social abilities by being to better see and form a link between all the connections that are formed. While with males we can also have some of the traits come out such a s laser single focus completely focused on their own individual interests such as toy cars which can combine with more aggressive traits as seen by often choosing to smash said cars together but that is not always a bad trait. Biologically males fill the role as protectors of their mate and offspring. From this their are inherent instincts to protect that allows them to do more than would normally be possible for said individual a great example be a story given by our professor in which he normally passive person an attempted murder and assault on him and his wife. From these extremes we see not one better than the other but each filling a role to support and enhance the abilities of the other to the best capabilities.

At the end of the week after all the discussions what I have seen and draw a lot from is for all the tendencies that each sex has at most they are only strength that we can potentially draw from but do not define us as who we are. There are plenty of exceptions to either sex that have the common traits of the other. You could have a very spatially oriented female on the other hand you could have a very social and connected male. From this we can seek to play to our strengths and understand others.