Today's disscussion was pretty intense yeah?  Talking about gender bahaviors has opened my eyes how they relate so much to family.  I found myself sitting in class saying things to myself like "yeah I do that, or yeah I've done that before."  For example, I give my little brother in-law a hard time for "being such a girl" and liking girly things.  Shame on me!!  If anything this class has been beneficial to me in my own life in way that I did not expect.  I guess we're all apart of the things around us even if we don't want to be.  My eyes have been opened to the fact that what I say and do around others always has an effect and I need to be a little wiser in acknowledging that.  It's so interesting to me that we can reinforce behaviors that we don't ourselves may not agree with, without even realizing it.