Men and Women

I have political science on Wednesday’s. It is a pretty fun class. I had hoped it involved more discussions and fewer lectures though. The class feels a little unorganized. The professor has no real syllabus to follow it seems and he has not decided how to test us yet.

This creates issues because it makes it difficult, as a student, to prepare for future assignments. For example, I do not know if I should take notes constantly or focus more on communicating with the professor.

We watched a part of the movie, Lord of the Flies last class. This movie is usually watched by high school students, but we watched it to take note of how people may interact with one another in cases where a leader needs to step up.

We also had group exercises with the class split up into three teams. One with women only, one with men only, and one mixed. I ended up in the mixed group. We were to decide how decisions should be made if we were to set up a new government after crashing onto a deserted island with one hundred other survivors.

The group with men only had a much more authoritarian view of handling things. The women leaned more towards a democratic system where a few people would be in charge. My group decided to have a fully democratic system with the mass making decisions together. It was pretty interesting to learn about these results and how men and women may look at things from very different perspectives.