Gender Interaction

This week's lesson was very interesting
as it is rather pertainant to what my group is looking at for our project
gender issues have always been an interesting topic to discuss
to learn more about social constructs
and the difficulties women face in fighting for gender equality

it is funny to see how for animals, there are so many different terms to describe
the young female, young male, adult female, adult male
makes me wonder if all these were even neccessary
why did the creator of these words have to go down to the very specifics
does it thrill him or her to come up with more words:)
is there a need to differentiate the young of a goat, female and male, while they are almost the same anyway.

one interesting thing that we discussed quite a lot in class was the issue about the Miss, Mrs and Ms
it really keeps me thinking
should I support this by addressing myself in terms of Ms in future:D
but if I do so, will people connotate it as me being of an elder age
I guess in singapore, it is slowly becoming prevalent to use Ms
but it still takes a bit of getting use to

lastly, we had a lot of discussion about the way men and women interact during conversations
I thought that was very insigthful
as we realize how men respond very differently when they talk to women
it is quite amusing to see how they change their tone, their degree of imposition just to come across differently in a mix gender conversation
but I guess sometimes we should not overread into things
as perhaps in a modern society, it is just manners to accomadate the other party in a conversation
similarly if there is majority of men in a group conversation and only one woman
maybe she too will adapt to the rest by interrupting more and having stronger opinions
well.
we shall see:)