Before I never thought how this class could influence me, and I thought the "change my life" review on Rate My Professor must be exaggerating...But now I sit here and agree to the idea that this gender issue class is really life changing. I don't know how much I can still remember about the books, since I haven't started to prepare for the exam; but there are definitely some ideas rooted in my head and affecting my daily life.
For an example, I was unaware that gender is actually socially constructed, and what I learned from this is that never categorizing individuals into class, sexual orientation, or even gender. Categorizing or stereotyping might be helpful when you want to study a group of people with some similarities, but when it comes to an individual, you have to look at the differences in order to really understand this person. We all fit in a different spot in a spectrum of life, and only when you try to understand a person at his/her unique and specific standing, can you get a more objective point of view without bias and discrimination.
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