Pyschology103

Part of that well rounded nursing career education is taking a Pysch class. After all the therapy sessions this should be an easy A, right? Well then again prolly not. Though I can say I looked forward to the class from the perspective of being a participant from the other side of the couch. Well in some ways the class is what I expected and in others it is not. The school work is typical of my other classes, too much work in too small a period of time. But I adore being here so its really not any real problem. I just need to remember I work also and need to schedule less class credit hours per semester.
Back to Pysch,, So the lectures are a pain,,boring hours spent writing as fast as I can and trying to answer the profs questions here and there as I can add something coherent to the fray. We had two journal articles that required some reading, thought and a reaction paper to be written.
The first was a hassle to get started because like any unknown that first step is a lil difficult. It was on Red Shirting, holding a child back intentionally to let them mature a bit more. When I was married we had done that to my daughter so I did have some personal experience to draw from when it was time to format my paper and spill the words onto paper. The second reaction paper has got my undivided attention and I have yet to really start on it. A reaction paper is not suppose to be written in the first person. This one is going to be hard to separate my feelings on
It is a article called Being Brenda. A well know mess of a story about twin boys and a circumcision that all but left one of them with no penis. The story is tragic beyond words. Dr Money was the John Hopkins Professor who thought gender was neutral at birth and could be taught or conditioned. This is about where my blood goes to boil and I think about bad things to do to him if there was a dark alley about and we happened to met there. The family was treated like lab animals and Dr Money has never been held accountable for his actions and the treatment that the boys and their parents endured. Brenda shifted back to a boy because that ultimately was what he was. Eventually years later he committed suicide and the family history has remained tragic to say the least. Dr Money is still a emeritus Professor at John Hopkins. Somehow that sure just doesn't sit well with some folks, Me being one of them.
Somethings are apparent rather quickly,,,like boy we have come a long way since 1967. The thought that gender can be taught is really not credible anymore ( if it ever was) and rather that we are what we identify as be it male or female. This being regardless of birth gender or sexual alignment.
I said we have come a long way towards being understood but we are still somehow close to 1967 in many ways. Socially we are accepted in some places while not in others. Medically we are still in the infancy of understanding our anatomy and biology,,,the stuff that makes us as we are. Donna Rose mentions in her blog a Aussie article that shows that yes we are indeed who we say we are. The American medical population as a whole doesn't embrace those findings as does those that make the laws to make us all equal. We continue to evolve as a group but being held back by others who would rather we go away again quietly. How sad. I'll write that reaction paper with a bit more of my soul in it very soon.