sawsaw 4/24

I was very fascinated with the content of Thursday's class. I found it to be very interesting and insightful. There were many things I learned about the women from the exercise we did. First, I learned that women are much more comfortable sharing their views and opinion with other women. As soon as Dr. Rog started the exercise, I saw a big difference in the amount of discussion and participation. We were more willing to share our true feelings and express different ideas and opinions we had. This showed me that women are more confident in numbers. They were less intimidated by what men think and are much more willing to stand up to a man. The second thing I learned was that men are unlikely to listen to a women unless they are forced into certain circumstances. During the majority of the exercise the men were either ignoring what the women were discussing by going on their computers or working on other things or they were tuning out the women and focusing on their counter argument. This shows me that men are disrespectful to the views and opinions of women if they are different from their own. Another important thing I got from this exercise was that women almost always look to men for power. Even though the women had the power throughout the entire class, they were still waiting on the men to share their opinions or gain acceptance on their ideas. This shows that men have a certain stronghold on women. Women's insecurities were evident in the fact that they still wanted to hear ideas from the guys and still valued what they said. Although this exercise was intended for the guys to understand and experience what women have been faced with, this exercise showed me a lot of things about women. I learned a lot of valuable things about myself and about women as a whole.