commentaries in government
i kind of feel like the category for this one should be political opinions but it began as journal. so i guess we’ll just keep it that way.
i’m in government and we ere looking at this “portrait of the elections” that talks about what percentage of men and women vote etc. so anyway. freeman was like “now it puts over the words male and female the word ‘sex’ and we all know that sex is something you do.. so maybe we’ll just call it gender.” and that got me off of livejournal and into the conversation. so i say “no. sex refers to the physical aspects of what a person is born. purely the anatomical parts that the body possesses and gender is what you consider yourself. so it would be nearly impossible to categorize gender. which is why they use sex in statitistics.” and everyone laughed. but he was like “okay then. we’ll use sex.” me: “thank you.” it kind of creeps me out that i answered thank you to my prof saying we’ll use sex. but nonetheless i’m glad that i granted knowledge to the class people and that i got my way. even if i am fairly sure it was just an avenue of appeasement.
“When people my age got married we got married for all the traditional reasons, but we, we didn’t know any better.” (is someone’s government prof bitter about his divorce?)