No Day But Today for 2005 September 19

Permalink [No comments] Mon Sep 19 2005 14:26 gender:

I am taking a sociology of gender class (my major is sociology, with a criminolgy emphasis) and our class discussion today is if sex is socially constructed. Gender is typically sicially constructed, boys play with trucks, girls with dolls, etc...but the argument was about giving all babies green blankets, and then a child's sex wouldn't be labeled on them since birth. I just kept thinking of anatomy and thinking that eventually that is going to play a large part of it...that is the issue that frustrates me with this class. Somethings just are, the end. oh well, at least the theories about uterus' shrinking as the female brain grows bigger because she is at school has been proved to be way of base...kind of like the theory we learned the other day about sperm controlling all of men's actions. (although you sometimes wonder if that is true ;) ah the joy of school. I love my majnor actually, and am having a great time.

Permalink [No comments] Mon Sep 19 2005 14:32 halloween is here again:

yes I know that it is only September 19th, but in Utah State land you better have a halloween plan already. I love halloween, and luckily I attend a school where halloween in not just a holiday but an event, this year lasting a week. We throw the biggest and sometimes badly the trashiest party of the season in Utah. this year we have the scream on friday (an LDS party averaging 5,000 people) the howl on saturday (the USU party averaging 15,000 people with the only rule being that you have to wear something...yes plastic wrap counts as something) and then on Halloween we are having odessy dance co.'s Thriller perform on campus (which is extremely cool). SO I have decided that I want to be the wicked witch of the west. I have been a witch 4 or 5 times, and love it. The only sad part is that I can't be sparkly, but I get to be green so it will be fun. Also the thought of halloween is in my head because of TIm Burton's newest movie Corpse Bride, with I am excited to see. ANyway I promise not to bring up halloween until October 15th, becasue that is the date we could bring it up when i was a kid.