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So, I just I'll jump right in with the postings, and you can get to know me along the way. biggrin

I've noticed something: most of the time, I'm the only female in any given group.

I work with an all-male group on group projects in most of my classes.

My circle of friends is not exclusivly, but very predominantly male.

I'm applying for the writing and performing comedy course at Humber College, in Canada, for next year. I recently went for my interview and audition. Granted, I didn't see the other two days' applicants, but I can pretty much assume one day was like another. The day I went, I was the sole and only female applicant. I could very well end up being the sole and only female enrolled in the comedy course. That wouldn't exactly need to be a bad thing: it could make for some very interesting (dare I hope Pythonesque? lol heart ) sketches, particularly is we go for the forming a sketch comedy group. It's an option, you know.

And today, I was sitting in pragramming class at school at the start of the period. The teacher walks in and says to the class, "Okay, guys...are we all guys in here? Looks like it--oh, sorry! Not quite. Okay, guys and girl...." That's when I realized I was the only person in the room unable to urinate effectivly while standing up.


I'm not complaining. I just find it odd. Guys can be immature sometimes, yes, but so can girls. It's just that when girls are immature, they're called bitchy. But the thing about girls is that I feel like I have to be too carefull around most girls because they have a more easily offended personality. I'm more likely to share interests with guys too: computers, video games, sci-fi, weapons, history, science, etc, etc, etc. I have very few female friends with whom I share interests.

This is why I hate gender segregated schools. It's all based on all girls being one way and it's just not true.

In a gender segregated classroom, the boys class focuses on the action-oriented concepts, and on the abstract concepts, and focuses in on conflicts. For example, their day would be like this: they come in, and are milling around the classroom and socializing and organizing, and eventually settle down. Then in history class, they may roleplay a scene about historical characters they're learning about, recreate a battle, or theorize on what may have happened had some detail come out differently.

In the girl's class, the schedule is that the girls file in quietly, chatting to each other in subdued voices, then sit in thier desks--arranged in a circle--or on the floor, wherever the class fits best, and talk about how they're feeling and what's new with them. Then in their history class, they sit and read excerpts from the diary of a girl their age who survived something bad enough to be studied in history class. Then they talk about their sympathy and empathy for the girl's experiences and how reading it made them feel and what they'd do and how it would feel to be in her place.

Am I the only girl who looks at that and says "But that sucks out loud! Why are the boys having all the fun?"


Not all girls are one way while all boys are another.