Gender Justice Week

This week at Saint John's Prep was known as Gender Justice week. This seemed like an interesting event and i decided to go to he first event this week that was run by some gender studies students from Merrimack College. Different students led workshops for the boys and girls named, "The friend zone" "Healthy college relationships" "feminism" "masculinity" and "Sexism and gender equity"
I chose to go to the last option which happened to be the least popular. There were no boys in the room, just four girls, a teacher, and the students teaching us. The next hour was honestly great and i was relieved to not have boys in the room with us. Everyone was open to sharing ideas and we answered personal questions. One of the most beneficial parts of that day was something called a Gender Bread person. The Gender Bread Person thing helped us distinguish Biological Sex, Gender, and Gender expression, which is all quite complex and confusing but helpful. So i got a lot out of that , because there was very little male interaction
The second day however the boys from Saint Johns prep ran a stereotyping based even where they created the ideal man and woman according to the opposite gender. The box for ideal man was pretty classic; muscular, tall, nice hair, abs etc. The ideal woman box said (they actually said this)
No hair, sex, skinny, long hair, and NO PERIODS. It is really great to hear that an entire group of men had agreed that their ideal woman would lack an extremely important aspect of the female anatomy. I found this to be extremely misogynistic and i think young men should be educated on the true anatomy of both men and women in a realistic way.
In the great words of Grainne Casey; "If you want a girl with no periods you probably want a none year old girl, or another boy"