Gender and family life

This week’s class discussion was quite interesting. We focused on genders and family life. As we know it the world is having an increasing population of men and woman stating their change in gender. As you know here I would like to share information gathered and read for class and my own opinion. This is quite a controversial topic so please have respect for all those you may comment and share their opinion. Now society has created different types of genders and there is much talk about it in the world, but I would like to talk about the original two. When I say, “the original two,” I am referring to male and female. From the beginning the World began with the inhabitants Adam and Eve and to this humanity has procreated and advanced to this day of age. In a video we watched, it stated that we as children unconscious separated ourselves as genders. As children, boys would be attracted to toys with cars and without any outward influence would play aggressively and imagine themselves with guns shooting one another. While on the other hand girls would be more attracted to toys that they can take care of and nurture. A lady in the video we watched, went on to say that she never liked makeup and would never use it. One day her daughter came to her and said that they needed to put make up on, because that will make us prettier. The video goes on to share that no matter what toy the boy gets, even though it may be a more feminine directed toy, would play with it in an aggressive way and use it as a gun or a weapon of some kind. The same is for the girls, if they play with some of the masculine directed toys, they will then continue playing with it as they would with the others. They will nurture it and doll it up. Now this is not saying that every boy will do this, and every girl will do this. There is always the exception with this. There will be boys that are more nurturing and there are girls that will be more aggressive. That is a part of life. Many take this inclination that they are different and that means that they must do different things, like having a liking to those of the same sex. There are so many things that could be said and discussed about same-sex attraction. I would just like to talk about a part that I recently learned. For class, we watched another video of people interviewed who had same-sex attraction. Many of them had horrible things done to them as a child. They were either sexually assaulted as a young child or were bullied and looked down upon. Many stated their confusion later on in life, they started feeling lonely and had an attraction to the same sex. They wanted to be a part of something, and they wanted to not feel lonely. These people indulged their selves in many acts to attain this sense of belonging, but to no avail. They were caught in depression, after much help they found themselves no longer having this attraction to the same sex and that they were not as depressed as they were before. After watching this made me think a lot about how many people in the world went through the same cycle or are stuck. I know others willingly choose to have an attraction to the same sex, but for those that had this cycle happen, I wonder if through help, these people can find a bit more fulfilling happiness.