Questions for Discussion and Journaling
6: Well as a male some people might say its hard for us to get in touch with our feminine side when we talk or more importantly write. Its restricted because society restricts us to it. As a guy when you talk about something that may be "girly" it is looked down upon by males. For example if men wrote something about how much fun shopping is, we might do a double take because something like that would be pretty feminine. Its almost vise-versa with females. They wont really want to write about "guy" things or women might look down on them. For example if your a women with a bunch of your girl friends you wont talk about football, you will probably talk about your feelings or whatever girls talk about.
7: Student narratives reinforce gender stereotypes by "encouraging students to undertake an exploration not only empowers them and promotes their own agency but also potentially extends critical awareness to all students of how writing can be used to explore the interaction between the seemingly personal and the political expectations". This is very encouraging news because students are starting to understand different discourse communities and can write about them more. If we didn't allow for the students to be more open then gender communities would be generalized and stereotyped.
Applying and Exploring
3: As for "normal gendered" students whether your learning about the transgender community or any other minority discourse community its broadens our thoughts, ideas, values, and beliefs. It gives us more knowledge to learn about a community and accept it and not quickly generalize that community. If we herd about a discourse community that is a minority and we stereotype it right away were not being much of a critical thinker. We need more critical thinkers in this world because there are too many people in this world that just look at something or someone and generalize from the get go.
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