My adventures are still continuing here on campus! I'm learning more about myself everyday, especially in my sociology and social psychology classes. Today I learned that I neither identify as male, nor female, but somewhere in between or androgynous. This is really exciting to me. It just means I have the typical authoritative and dominant male characteristics as well as the caring and compassionate female ones. I learned all of this from Bem's Sex Role Inventory, of course. You should take it some time. You might be like, "wow, never looked at myself that way", or "yeah, I already knew that about myself". Either way it's still fun to do!
I also had the pleasure of attending Fraser Smith's lecture on his book about Maryland's overlooked players in the Civil Right's Movement. I have to admit that his night lecture was more interesting than the one during my IDS class. I suppose the difference in audience made him talk about different things. Anyways, turns out that his point of view showed how open and knowledgeable he was. I thought it was exciting that he got to write this book with all his own opinions after spending a lifetime trying to be objective as a journalist. Actually his book mostly gave facts about the people he studied, but still he just took his own time to focus on something that he was really passionate about. I hope one day I can do something like that, whether it be write a book or climb a mountain!
Well, I don't what this next week will bring (besides classes and homework), but I'm ready for it!
-Kristin
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I'm going to try the Bem's Sex Role Inventory, it will be interesting to see the results. Depending on the relationship I have with a person, I am either told I'm aggressive or really laid back or passive. So, maybe I'm androgynous too. I'll let you know.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty interesting about Fraser Smith....your comment about him having to spend his career being objective is a shame...pretty much one of the main reasons I would find it hard to be a jouranlist...
ReplyDeleteAnd that's what makes blogging so great! I've enjoyed your blogs!Have a great weekend Kristin.
Well thanks for reading my blogs! It's always interesting to know what people's sex roles are, so I definitely would like to hear your results, Gegi. The characteristics in the inventory are pretty stereotypical, so if you know yourself, you can practically predict the results! It is pretty accurate though.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with how hard it would be to be a journalist! I'm too opinionated , so I'll stick to blogging!