Gender

 

Typical Behaviors and Perspectives as they relate to Family Structure

This week I watched a few videos on surveys done on young children and even some mammals to investigate the differences between males and females. These videos were very interesting to watch and learn from. I will share with you what I learned from those videos coupled with what I learned in class. From the videos, some behaviors were typical for males and some typical for females. I will describe these behaviors below.

Female typical --- Females when they are young tend to be more nurturing in terms of the way they play with the toys, they interact with others and their toys. Girls are more cooperative in their plays. Girls develop communication skills at an earlier age. They are more emotionally expressive and sensitive to the emotions of others as well. They are relationship-oriented, meaning they make their decisions based on the relationships they have. Girls have a relative orientation to the sense of direction. At a younger age females have fine motor skills, meaning they are better in their hand coordination. Women can be distracted easily and usually cannot focus on doing one thing at a time. Females desire to be cherished.

Male typical ---- males when they are young are very active, combative, and competitive in their play. They have spatial orientation in terms of direction. They are more physically protective. Boys tend to be myopic; they concentrate on one job and fulfill it before moving on to the next. Men are more physically aggressive, they have that ability to protect though we must learn how to temper that. Males value respect. Men are more likely to establish a rule when playing than to develop a relationship. Males when they are you have better gross motor skills, they can walk and crawl easier. Men are most likely to be involved in risk-taking behaviors.

Do not forget these attributes listed above are typical that does not mean every male or female should possess these attributes or has them, that is a generalization. Sometimes it can be the opposite, sometimes some males can have women attributes and vice versa, or sometimes a male can have some female and some male attributes. One may wonder, why are those differences there, could it mean there was a God who played a part in creating us that way? One thing that I learn though is the importance of embracing our differences, and I love the fact that these differences when looked at from a different perspective balance each other out. What if women because of their differences tend to have a civilizing effect on men?

Women and men have different decision-making processes. Women think more of the effect that decision affects others and surroundings, men think of it as either right or wrong regardless of whoever it affects. Study says that our brains have what is called grey and white matter. The grey matter throughout the central nervous system enables individuals to control movement, memory, and emotions. Different areas of the brain are responsible for various functions, and grey matter plays a significant role in all aspects of human life. There is a lot more connective tissue in the verbal center and the emotional center of the brain. Women make a lot more of these connections than men do.

Women are multitaskers, this attribute comes to help when it comes to nurturing, women can be aware of all the children and meet all their needs and be attentive to all of them. Men are all-or-nothing taskers. When they are doing a certain task, they are inattentive to other things happening around them.

The dilemma of this world is that opinions are changing to make us think we (men and women) are the same, but we are naturally different why do we try so hard to fit into these different roles when in fact these roles are beneficial either side thereby providing a balance. What if God wants us to maintain these roles because that is how he designed them. It is not because old people used to do it, the world is changing should we do the same? There is a very strong message nowadays that we do not need each other, we can thrive without the other one.

The Family Proclamation to the world talks clearly about how gender is essential (the very core of who you are) for our premortal, mortal, and eternal sojourn. Let us embrace the difference in these roles and improve those attributes we have. As we do so this will improve the way we fulfill our divine responsibilities.