Culture and Gender Differences

This week, we discussed culture. We decided as a class that culture is more important than race when getting statistics for research. Culture is what traditions you grew up with and beliefs that make you who you are. Just because you are a certain race, does not mean you have the same culture as other people of your race. That should not be a determining factor of your culture. For a homework assignment, we had to watch a video about whether there was a difference between men and women. This was a old program done by abc news. They interviewed a few women rights advocates and they were very opinionated in this subject. They say that of course there are no differences between men and women and think they should have equal rights. When the interviewer mentioned things that plainly proved men and women are different, they somewhat slightly admitted it and then quickly dismissed it. The program went on to show how boys and girls act differently from the time they are born. They react differently to situations and then they are older, they even play differently. The women that were interviewed said that children acted a certain way because of the way we raise them. They said that we raise them to fill those gender characteristics and the children just think that is how they are supposed to act so they do. The tests that were performed and showed, proved otherwise. In my opinion, of course men and women are different. They are genetically different, we have different hormones and different abilities. Women can't do some things that guy can. Face it! Guys can't do some things that girls can. It is not something we should be offended by or ashamed of. We should embrace this fact and use it to our advantage. It is not sexist to admit these things. I'm not trying to belittle anyone. I am just giving fact. We are build differently, see things differently, sometimes learn differently, and have different roles in family life. I think that God made us differently so we could learn to rely on each other and form a closer bond within the family. Men's weaknesses can be assisted with women's strengths and visa versa. I don't believe that having weaknesses makes  you weak. It keeps you humble and gives you opportunities to rely on the Lord. Equal rights between men and women do not mean that we are the same.
On other note....
My Parenting class is reading Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn. I suggest reading it. I am still formulating my opinions of his ideas on parenting, but we have some great debates in class about what he says. It is an interesting read and I would be curious to see what y'all think about it. I could make another blog just on ONE topic in his book.