Lining up

Lining Up 

While recently studying issues between the two genders, I've started to notice these problems coming up in real life. However, I've also noticed that not all these issues are as simple as originally stated. An article in The New Yorker, 'Social Animal' by David Brooks, looks at a multiple of social issues and problems in modern day life. While gender related ones are included in these, they are not by any means the focal point of the article and so it helps put these issues I've studied into a greater perspective. 

                  What is so great about this article is that these situations need to be put in perspective before  it is possible to properly judge a person, let alone an entire gender. People don't, or at least I don't and have no knowledge of anyone who does, go around with thinking about all the gender problems in the world. Most people have a lot more that they are thinking about. It is perfectly possible for someone, to view someone else of the opposite sex as an equal and not purely as a girl/boy. Not every action that someone commits has to be against a girl/boy, they can simply be against another person. 

                  While the evidence to his arguments can at come over with a sense of arrogance, they are perfectly reasonable (at worse) arguments for actions of some people. Not every thing a man does has to be a 'sexist' action, it can be completely physiological. It can be just as natural as a mother's reactions to her baby child. Peoples' lives don't turn around their relationship with the opposite gender, and neither do their actions.
                 So why so some peoples’ perceptions of individuals completely depend on their gender? Why are people stereotyped and pigeon holed for their gender to such a extreme degree? Any idiot will tell you that not all girls are exactly the same and neither are all boys, so why are treated like we speak for our entire gender?  A boy and a girl of the same age will have far more in common than a child and an elderly person both of the same gender.
          And this is by no means harmless, some of our biggest day to day conflicts arise from the way we separate genders in our mind. I’m not saying we should separate people at all, but if you are going to, there are far more logical ways of doing it than male and female.