Last week's youth group was give and take.
We wanted to discuss women's capabilities through watching the movie Mulan and having pre and post discussion questions.
The girls loved getting to watch a movie on a projector, and helped prepare home-made popcorn, but they chatted through the movie, and a couple of the girls had to go home before we could really discuss the female capacity.
While the girls had fun, or goal for the evening was not quite met, learning experience.
However, one of the girls that had some of the most interesting comments in pre-discussion lives across the street. I made a special effort to seek her out the next day as I know her family and how she caters to her father and younger brother.
With as much grace as I could muster in my second language I explored her comments of females being "debil" or 'weak', and "el desarollo del cerebro macho" or ' the development of the male brain' in comparison to the female who 'thinks with her heart'. Instead of approaching it with a force we listened to each other. With all the heat and fury in my heart my tongue calmly explained simply, hormones. How they work. Who has what. The pluses and minuses of both.
We came to the conclusion together that
1. there are generalizations, but exceptions to every rule
2. males are pretty darn good at focussing on one thing and putting all their energy there
3. women are very observant and good at taking in all their surroundings and balancing them
4. anyone can be physically strong, and we all have to work to be that way
Even though i wasn't able to talk to the rest of the girls personally, this work with Singey gave me peace in some success for the evening and birthed more desire within me to focus here.
With my educational history I am to be placed in a site that needs literacy improvement. However, I have decided tonight that my biology background can be of much use to the PC if they were to place me in a site that needs Sex ed. There is SO MUCH risk here; early teen pregnancy, STDs, rape. So many of these girls don't even know their rights or their capabilities. It would bring me much joy to plant the seed of equuality.
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