Psychology 30 - you so impressed me with your rich contributions and critical questioning today. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas, your thoughts are at the essence of learning and I learned a lot from you today.
Today we looked at Personality and Gender by asking the question "Does (how does) gender influence personality?
We began the class by looking at something that has recently been in the news - the Toronto couple that has chosen to keep the sex of their child private. There has been much frenzy in the media due to their decision for their child Storm. Their child is not 'androgynous' and the mother states that "Storm will understand his/her own sex and gender to navigate this world (the outcry has confirmed it!), but there has never been any question that withing our family, the issues of sex/gender and decision making around it are open for age appropriate discussion." (Star, May 28, 2011)
'Genderless' baby's mother responds to media frenzy
We looked at questions like;
Why not raise your child to choose their own gender? Especially when we know that gender is socially constructed and sex is biological.
Why does society need to know if a newborn is a 'boy' or a 'girl'?
Is it ok to keep your child's gender private?
We began to explore gender roles and stereotypes in or society, community and the media. Looking forward to more class discussion tomorrow!
