im a girl?!
My job in the in class experiment was consisted of being questioned. I thought it was pretty cool because it gave me a feeling of control that I had not previously experienced in the game. In the game im a guy character and have a guy name and pretty much act a guy role so my in game sexuality had never been questioned. Even if it had been questioned it probably would have become evident that i was a guy.
The experiment was cool because I got to play with my in game sexuality and actually control (to a certain extent) what people thought of me.
I have to say I dont know how i felt about people thinking I was a girl. I think it either A. shows I pulled off the exercise correctly, in which case im really happy because I understand women a little more than I thought I did when I did the other gender execercise, or B. the generalizations used by the questioners were not very effective.
The problem is, in my opinion, that there are these smaller details that separate men and women (things such as liking gossip or liking sports (great generalizations right?)but that the core values are what determine the person, and that there are very specific and small things within that core value which actually determine sex. I have no idea what these things are, but I think that they are things ingrained in our minds because of what we learn in life as opposed to what is taught to us. For example, most women, in our society, are taught to be girly and delicate at a young age. We therefore guide our general perceptions of what women are by what we teach women and expect them to be. However, you then get people like Sarah Connor who break every mold applied to a woman (she could beat up anybody in this class). Is this person asexual because she doesnt really fit the mold, physically or behaviorally? who knows... like i said those are smaller details, generalizations. You realize that she is a woman because she ultimately becomes a mother... her purpose of living is to nurture, and she decides to do this only until she has a series of life changing experiences. Her core motivation is to be a mother (but it is so because she experienced it, not because it was taught to her) so she is a mother.
ok i have no idea what i just said but i know that it didnt really make sense. lol. Its kinda true though, i think that it is experiences that end up determining the role we take and it is that role which we assume which makes us man or woman... ok... again it didnt make sense...
Anyways i thought the questioners were lead to thinking that i was a woman because they were using smaller "details" which cant really determine who you are... they shouldve used something else, but i dont know what that is and im sure they dont know either.
ps: im comfortable enough knowing that im a big burly beer-drinking belly-button picking man to not be bothered by such an exercise or such an outcome... lol. I actually thought it was interesting how small of a distinction there can be between guys and girls. and if you dont think so ill kick your ass!