[Surprise.]

"Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece."

Hah, just felt like using that quote because it's funny. Anyway, I sat it on two of my friends' psychology class last semester & listened to the awesome professor's lecture. She started off with a good story that got to all of us. It made us laugh, but more than that, it made us question ourselves. So here's the story as I remember it:

Professor: A father and son are in a car on their way home. Because they get into a great conversation, the father stops paying attention for a second and they get into an awful accident. The father died immediately. The son was rushed into the hospital. As soon as he was taken into the ICU, the surgeon looked down and gasped, "I can't operate on him. This is my son." 

Professor: How is this possible? [For awhile, no one said anything. So she urged us on.]

Students: Stepfather? The father didn't really die? Grandfather? [Yes, we came up with ridiculous answers.]

Professor: The surgeon was his mother. 

If you thought of it being his mother right away, then good for you. Maybe it's because this is through text. Or maybe you're just smarter than the whole lecture hall...not sure which it is. Either way, we then talked about gender. How come even in 20[10] we don't immediately think that a surgeon could be a female? How come we are still so shocked when a nurse is a male or a secretary is a male? Or there is a female on a football team? Or a wrestling team? It doesn't make sense.

Here we are fighting for our rights and equality, but then we are shocked when certain things happen. We have all this energy fighting for equality in the workforce, and we do a good job of it as well but once we get it, we kind of give it up. How come our parents still tell us (females): "it's not YOU that we don't trust, it's them [men]." Or they don't let us go places just because we're girls and it's late? WHY?

Anyway, I just wanted to put that story out there cause I found it in my notes while cleaning my car! By the way, the original title of this post was going to be "gender" but that would totally give it away.

So long. <3