I thought a very interesting thing that we talked about was the stages of reality. Thinking deeply about things such as how something became what it is now is a super confusing thing. I haven't ever thought about why you sit on a chair, which was a class example, or something a little different like why you pour body wash into you bath to make bubbles? Why and how have things become how they have. The different stages are 1.) externalization: WE create meaning of things through socializations. 2.) objectification: The creation of this meaning is now becoming known through other people. 3.) Internalization: Everyone learns about this creation and this is what is "right", forever. Another thing we talked about was the roles of men and women and how men SHOULD BE stronger than women and women SHOULD cook dinner.
Something that happened a few days ago at my serving job was, a man came in and sat at the bar and snapped at me because he wanted a drink, and then continued to tell me to "get used to that" after I gave him a dirty look. He then told me that women were put on this earth for men anyways. This is a perfect example of how society has been shaped.
The example you gave really put in perspective the stages of reality. The man who you mentioned in your example probably come from an environment where it's okay to treat women as inferior to men, and saw nothing wrong with his comments. It disgust me to see that things like this are still happening today.
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