This week our main focus was on gender.
We live in a society where many of the day to day tasks that we do LABEL us as certain gender. For instance, cooking and cleaning is the woman's job. Hunting and fixing things around the house is the man's job. The only problem with this is when a woman does some of the "man's jobs" we have this term for her called tom-boy. When a man likes to knows his colors or can cook and clean, we call him femmie or "mom". Do these things really make us girl or boy? If your little girl plays with cars, is she going to be less of a woman when she gets older? If your little boy plays dolls with his sisters, is he going to be less of a man when he gets older? In my house, I played with cars and video games. I remember my older brother playing beanie babies with me and my little sister. Are we less of our gender now since we seemed to be more of the other gender back then? Never. In my house we all were taught to clean, cook, work, mow the lawn, fix things when they broke, change a tire, and know what our roles are as a female or male. So what are our underlining roles whether female or male? A boy is born with the instincts to protect, provide, and preside. A woman is born with nurturing. I believe we were born male or female for a reason, and you can't go "change" the gender of how you are. Even a male who is raised around women, he might be more sensitive and like to do "girl" things, but he still has those desires and need to protect, provide, and preside over. A woman who is a "tom-boy" her whole life, still will nurture and care, it is a part of who she is. Most of the task I mentioned are daily tasks, necessities of life that need to be taken care of no matter if you are male and female. We can't base gender on those kind of things, we need to realize that we are born in the gender we were before we came here to earth, and those bases "nurture, providing, presiding, and protecting" come with who you are, it is a gift and you need to recognize that and use them properly instead of throwing them away think you are really the other gender or you like your same gender.