25 Days of Online Support from E Scheffer for Women and Others...Got me thinking of Gender Identity Issues in Society

http://elisabethscheffer.com/event is the link I can share wtih friends...mainly women but likely anyone could benefit (see more on the site and get a woman friend tuned in if that's the criteria and then she can share...) since we all have 'masculine and feminine energies to us'...maybe time to rename some of our descriptive terms...Mal(for male with the idea of Ma in there, that all people are born of a Ma and have both energies). Fem(female with the reference for the sign for iron). Genu (Gender Neutral).Then In for Infant, Ch for Child, Te for Teen, YA for Young Adul (with the number of years such as Ch2, Te15, YA 17 or even older if that works better for someone, Ad18-29, Ad30s, Ad40s, Ad50s, Ad60s, Ad70s, Ad80s, Ad90s, Ad100s,CO (Crossed Over with the age one on earth. I put more of that on another post with a different system, more of males for 1 and females for 2 and so on.

"Counting to 10 in a whole new way" is the title of that post. Enjoy and I'll hope to catch much of it too. Thanks to Mary Campbell from Divining Beauty for passing the link along with a nice letter from her site outreach. 

 Pretending to be someone of the opposite gender to walk a mile and a day in their moccasins would be a healing practice to try from time to time. Back at Vassar in the 1980s, we definitely had a few classroom chats about gender stereotypes in social psychology classes and of course as things played out on campus whether in plays or social situations and romances, sports, leadership and more. We had at least one female class president, and also had a male one. Vanessa and Maurice I am pretty sure were their names.

How did each give us a sense of which gender is appropriate for leadership as a traditionally women's college turned co-ed (20 years earlier, were we losing ground in a way?) Weren't the fellows going to a college normally for women breaking with stereotypes whether at Vassar in Poughkeepsie or Albertus Magnus in New Haven (right near Yale which long ago was in alliance with Vassar.)

Okay, today there's Mount Holyoke in MA that is an all women's college and they along with Smith and likely a few others offer 'food for thought' about what it would mean to have a single gender college or high school or other environment or grouping. Often for children or for faith groups or certain activities keeping programs 'gender specific' can be helpful. At Mount Holyoke for instance there are 'seven different forms of being female that are recognized' which include people who were born as biological males physically.

I need to learn more, but the overall idea to think of how we are socialized and how our society functions relative to these matters of biology, gender and more in many fields is worth a ponder or two from both the perspective of male and female or an array of of other gender identity (or not identifying) designations (whichever one defines oneself as or wherever on the continuum my college and high school friends would remind me) or in more general terms for social groups and more. Okay, need to post and be on with my day...