Some of you may be heading to college in the fall. There is an endless numbers of decisions to be made and things to think and worry about. Will I like college? Will I do well? Will the food be good? Will the professors be nice? Will I get along with my roommate? Who will my roommate be?
What if you could choose a member of the opposite sex as a roommate?
A million years ago, during my undergraduate years, one of my assignments was to watch a surgery (pre-op, intra-op, and post-op) and write about it.
My class mates jumped at the first appendectomies they could find, but I wanted something interesting. I asked around about upcoming events and one nurse failed to let me down.
“There’s a vaginoplasty happening in about an hour.”
I am female. Its something that I have no control over, I was born this way. Never needed to appologize for it as far as I was concerned but to some you'd think it was a disease or a handicap that causes me to be a menace to society or a human being that is capable of less. The love of my life believes with me that women can do anything that they want to but that they shouldn't HAVE to do it.
I was thinking about the 2008 election, and the democratic candidates especially. More specifically, I was pondering that subconcious question: Who has it worse? Blacks or Women? Who has been more oppressed? Borack or Hilary?
Confession: I've been less diligent about blogging because I lost hope that I had even the slightest chance of winning the scholarship. And all this time I thought I was above being motivated by money. 
BUT...I'll do my best to get back at it. If I win the scholarship, that would be icing on the cake.
When thinking about posting this blog, the research became an issue. As realization struck, I thought this topic needs no research other than the reader's own. I thought, all I need to do get the ball rolling. Now before you continue reading watch this, I recommend you watch this. (about 30 min long) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1993368502337678412. It's called Killing Us Softly 3.
In this gendered, patriarchal world, we seem to not notice the subtleties in gender differences. How male-oriented jobs (engineering, science/math related industries and even athletes) are paid more than "feminine" jobs (teaching, secretary work, and mostly housework which isn't paid at all).
I first started questioning this when I found out, several years ago, about individuals who were intersex (old term "hermaphroditic") from birth. As in, some people are born with mixed genitalia and/or sexual organs from both genders.
