My First Blog

Hi everyone, my name is Aylin K. I just want to start off by saying that this is my first blog so bear with me. I wanted to tell you a little about myself and why I picked gender as my theme. Okay, so about me. I am pretty much into anything new and interesting. I am a total 80's kinda girl. I have always tried to separate myself from the "in" things, I rather be original. I have a very easy personality, although I can be crazy at times. I will put up with almost anything with the ones I love except, if they lie to me. I rather get hurt by the truth then not know, its my pet peeve. I have grown up in a very loving and sheltered environment. I am Armenian, so naturally I was brought up in a very male/female dichotomous environment. There was never any understanding of anything else. Anything else was just wrong and not normal. My parents have been married for almost 30 years and they are still in love, which I think is pretty cool. They have a very traditional understand of man/woman, male/female, and the relationships between people. By traditional I mean a very European/Western understanding of it. Where it is male and female and no room for in between. I have to say I never really realized how much of that had passed on to me until my last semester at my former college where I took my first human sexuality class. That class really shocked me as to how little I knew about the diversity there is in sexuality and gender. Up to that point, I was only aware of two genders male or female. The concept of more then two genders was out of this world. In my head it was not really possible. I was intrigued and I was hooked. When I transferred over and I had to pick a theme, I naturally picked gender. It is so fascinating to me because we don't realize how much we stereotype, and how we ourselves become those stereotypes. I just feel it is so important for me to understand human sexuality, because it is such a big part of our lives. Our sexuality, I think, is the core to how we categorize our self in this world and how we associate ourselves. There for I felt it was a subject worth exploring.