Analyzing Gender and our Reactions to studying Gender

ABOUT CHRISSIE and LEARNING ABOUT SEX vs. GENDER
I noticed a lot of reactions among both men and women about collapsing sex and gender OR about some worry or concern that if someone like Chrissie exists (born with internalized male organs but looks like a man) the whole notion of sex or gender is threatened. The reaction itself is a kind of ethnocentrism. It leads to fear and even violence in places and contexts where such threats seem to threaten community or societal values and persons become targets. They are targets used to maintain the social constructed nature of cultures. This is from the collapsing of biological notions with learned ways of being--culture.

Anthropologists can use there participant-observation methods and the power of ethnography to LEARN HOW SUCH CULTURAL REACTIONS WORK. Why is this such a threat? What triggers the threat? What dissolves the threat? Why are so many of you more threatened that Chrissie seems to be? Remember the high percentage of women who are sexually men in Australia is particular to Australia. Notice how no one asked why that is? Why Australia?



Here's a video I am showing in each section today before the group presentations. Posted on YouTube by male user tencups on June 28, 2006. Tencups is short for Ten Cups Golf Channel. George the actual user from Austin (I believe Texas) and he calls himself a "certified golf nut." With his own hidden camera video he supposedly confirms "the superior consciousness of women". The video titled Why Women should be in Charge has a low number of views (3,801) relatively speaking for being on since 2006. I posted a video about 4 months ago and I have over 700 views. What's interesting is that youtube marketers insist that anything with women's sexual bodies or "T&A" (tits and ass) will get lots of views on YouTube.

What if the George of Ten Cups is missing the actual context of why women ARE NOT in charge? How could this video support that conclusion?

What I find even more fascinating and somewhat predictable about this video are the range of YouTube Comments. Take a sample and notice what doesn't get said. We shared about this in class.

theratking666 (2 months ago) -1

he probably only showed the ones were the man messed up and there were 500 women who screwed the whole test and hes such a liberal minded arse he didnt want to disgrace his vagina

liseestelle (4 months ago) 0

careful of stereotyping.....

LegendaryMario (5 months ago) 0

lol giri, men need help in the 21st centure? what is that. go die

girigoku31st (7 months ago) 0

Makes no sense.. Gosh.. Men need more help in the 21st centure in all developed and handsomely developing countries..

bipper1 (7 months ago) 0

Tencups is a liberal baby-boomer loser. His generation produced a bunch of self hating men. Can't wait for them to die off so we can let the real men take over. Worst generation EVER!

Grubnar (1 year ago) -1

Strange, in my experience men and women are surely diffent but exacly the other way around. Its the women that always fail to read and follow the instructions. I dont know why!

horuvex (1 year ago) 0

This is really interesting. While maybe not a reason women should be "in charge" it proves that men do things differently. My guess is the men dismiss most of this writing as advertising. It is true women are more observant, especially regarding human emotions.

haleylovesrichard (3 months ago) 0

well youd think theyd see all the arrows and atleast look at it though you do have a good point it just doesnt make much sense im kinda thinking that guy may have set it up but then again what would he get out of it??

datiger (2 years ago) 0

Okay... what was the point.? Men don´t read signs.?
We do logical conclusions. What´s logical about a place where there´s "self-service" and you have to pay, although nobody is checking if you do.

Also check out the YouTube videos Men's Power In Society or see Buffet tag about his secretaries.