Gender Roles

Hello Everyone! I really enjoyed Family 160 this week. On Thursday we started class by talking about the different roles of men and women. We said that men are typically more protecting, competitive, mechanically minded, aggressive, and task oriented. We said that women are typically more nurturing, sensitive, emotionally expressive, cooperative, and relationship oriented. We then talked about the stages of same sex attraction. We talked about a boy or girl who feels rejected by their peers of the same gender when they are younger feel more comfortable around members of the opposite gender. They then grow in to their teenage years and just like every child that age they are seeking for the approval of those they aren't familiar with. For the boys who hang out with girls, they just want to interact and be accepted by the other guys. At this point there is really no sexual attraction to those of the same sex, they just want to learn more. After they still can't find approval from those of the same gender they then tend to have sexual thoughts towards those of the same gender.

Those who have same gender attraction are constantly trying to fill their buckets but as Dallin H. Oaks states "You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy." There are those who realize this and seek out help and support to change. There have been people who have changed their homosexual behaviors and ended up living a very rich and fulfilling heterosexual life styles.

At the end of class of Thursday the women, mainly the married women, of our class were asked if they would like it if their husbands were more nurturing, sensitive, emotionally expressive, cooperative, and relationship oriented. They all said yes! They would love it if their husbands could possess some of these qualities. Brother Williams then stated, "How sad is it that society takes these men our of your dating pool.

That really hit me. I need to be less judgmental and help others to be less judgmental as well. I loved learning about men and women this week. It was very eye opening.

I hope everyone has a great week!

With love: Sydney