Our little experiment in class on Thursday made me realize a few things about gender relationship dynamics. Once the experiment was proposed, the women immediately latched onto their new found power without questioning the morality of the exercise. No where in American society today are women arbitrarily silenced like the men were, yet they made it seem like somehow the tables were all of a sudden turned. They felt like they were getting back at us, when all we ever did was be born male. We never purposely oppressed anyone in class, Dr. Rog has been very good about making sure everyone who wants their voice to be heard gets to talk.
I also realized that no matter how hard we try, it is almost impossible to truly understand the opposite sex. Our brains work differently and there will always be a gap, as the boundary between genders is too far to successfully cross with a class experiment or anything else.
Also, this experiment reminded me of a video I saw in one of my psychology classes starring Dr. Zimbardo of Stanford University. He randomly assigned people to be a guard or a prisoner in a fake prison. After a while, the guards started acting like mean guards and the prisoners became depressed and submissive. All of a sudden the girls thought they had some new ability to be heard, so they speak up louder and more often.
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