Post Class Butler

The exercise in which men were not allowed to speak was very affective and it clearly illustrated what has happened to women throughout history. The most frustrating aspect of it was the time lag. Even if I had more relevant thoughts, I could not get them out fast enough to have the proper effect. Also, my thoughts were not read in the tone that I would I said them in, and therefore lacked the meaning that would have originally been conveyed.

The discussion of gender was of particular interest to me. How can it be that the "men" can't speak? You are then assuming that I am a man. But how did you come to that conclusion? id it my voice, my mannerisms? Is it that I have hair on my face? So do "women." Is it my clothes? Both genders wear jeans, both wear jackets and t shirts. it must somehow be known that I am a man. I've never known anyone who took me for a woman. What is it then? how am I a man and not a woman. What if I started to put clips in my hair and wear dangling earrings? Then I would wear a skirt and put eyeliner. Then am I still a man. Not in a lot of men's eyes. But to most I am still a man who "dresses like a woman." Then it must be my biological makeup and the difference in hormones that makes me a man. Nope, in that case we have just labeled penis=man vagina=woman. what if we inverted those labels at the start?