Genderize yo mind

Our readings are pretty bomb but I can't help but feel that we are missing a lot of background on the main cause of the conflicting ideas of what gender is. Yes, in part it is our family, peers and our society but what drives the culture of America? Our economy!!! What drives our science? Our economy!!! In the article about the body and its biological differences shaping gender ideals, a great point was brought up. Science and its empirical explanations on the ways of the world has been manipulated to suit the chauvinistic differences between man and women. It explained how the female brain is more apt to skills of homemaking, nurturing, organization, rather than tedious work, driving and bring home the bacon. It really blows my mind, it really scares me that the very institutions in which we pride the advancement of our race has been used to perpetuate frivolous, damaging and demoralizing fallacies against women, minorities and cultures. Yet, before feminism, title 9, the 19th amendment came to be the sludge hammers that shattered these ideas, much of the U.S and the world believed them. Renowned scholars even supported these ideas with journals, lectures, experiments etc. Our education, even today, is still heavily entrenched in the ideas of these renowned scholars, scientists, academics and it makes me question what have I learned, what are these truths that I have accepted? Yesterday in class, when we discuses how are very discourse shapes our opinions about gender such as what home and work means, it further pushed me to analyze almost all aspects of our lives. How do we begin to measure this subconscious onslaught of gender ideals that appear in our discourse, media, education etc? And is there a feasible solution, can we really turn back generations and generations of instilled thought? Any who, all food for thought (no biggie).