Blog Post #3
Looking back on my personal interactions with people, I can certainly recall a few that absolutely apply to the point of this blog post. These examples were all things that have been said to me. Cynthia Enloe’s quote regarding the concept of the words “tradition,” “natural” and “always” plays a role in these instances because it perfectly lines up with how people have always thought. Things like being told by my male roommate’s mother (yes, that roommate from that one blog post) after telling her that her son doesn’t clean up after himself, she said, “He’s a guy, what do you expect?” The first example I want to bring up is a collection of four different instances, all about the same thing. One happened in 2013, another was four years ago, the third happened three years ago and the fourth was last year. In 2013, I was a senior in high school, and I was called “average” by my best guy friend who had just given me my first kiss. He said he had never kissed an “aver...