Wow, wow. wow I am pretty sure this sums up my reaction to the class today. I saw so much connection today in our biological makeup and its role in gender behavior. Humans are serial monogamous, men marry women with wider hips. Testosterone makes men stupid, the hippocamus (spelling?) nuclei appears to be less ordered in women therefore indicating scatterbrain behavior. And then Toria's passionate reaction to these psychologically theories of male and female biological interactions. I felt lifted after class yesterday, practically overjoyed. I could link my annoying needy behavior to a biological tendency developed during the ovulation cycles which serves as a subtle reminder to find a mate. Of course I will not give all credit to this biological characteristic. After all, our sentience and ability to reason is what allows us to override our biological tendencies.
But then what is it then that drives women or maybe just me to seek out male companionship on the weekends? What motivates me to drive up to Penn State so as to hang out with my girls and LOTS of men? To have fun,sure but I believe it is something else as well. I think despite our birth control, plan Bs, and surgical procedures to halt fertility and promote fertility, we still have little control over our biological impulse to want procreational sex. Especially during college, we are at our prime, we look better now than we ever will. We are fully matured and looking to find and create our unique personalities. The biological interaction between the sexes is one of the key experiences that shape a man or a woman's outlook on society/gender. For example, men are innately attracted to a certain hip to body ratio on a women, ideally the hourglass figure. As well as a symmetrical face and fat on the hips of a youthful woman, is seen as attractive to men. Which is why I believe that biology still underlies most behavior that occurs during male and female interactions. No matter how we suppress our biological urges to mate, give birth etc, we are highly susceptible to their influences.
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