Comments on: Episode 94: How Do You Learn to Act Like a Man/Woman? Gender Identity and Gender Scripts

By: Ruth Eyrich

Ruth Eyrich — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:44:42 +0000

I only can agree with Shannon.
And after listening to the podcast, I had the feeling of: Okay, so. I’m not really femal!” I played with dolls, when I was little but I rather played with my older brother with playmobile, lego and matchbos cars, or we played soccer outside or what you called typical boys because of the aggression, we played to shout each other.
Maybe my parents just didn’t want to do the gender enforcment, and I just my brother was my role model. (Fo instance my mother didn’t want to buy me any Barbie stuff, I had to do it secretly.)
What caught my interest was that you talked about the influence of hormones on the fetus. My university did a research on the influence of testosterone on the fetus. They measured this with the proportion of the index finger and the ring finger. They found that these were acting more manly (it didn’t matter if they were men or women), if there was more testosteron present. I was a little bit amazed to here that about androgene as well. You said, you are going to make an episode on this but I couldn’t find it. Did you make one? Whick one is it?
Thank you,
Ruth

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:42:59 +0000

Gaynelle – thanks for the comment and I’m glad the podcast is helping out. Keep on listening – lots more episodes to go. – Michael

By: Gaynelle

Gaynelle — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:37:33 +0000

I just wanted to comment that I am currently taking a Lifespan Development course and this web site great to help the student understand and make it easy to learn!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:49:11 +0000

Thanks Jed! You may be my first listener from the Philipines. Glad you found the podcast – enjoy. Michael

By: Jed

Jed — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:29:42 +0000

Hi, I’m a newbie to your show and I’m on the 29th episode now!
I’m so happy that i’ve found a psych podcast.

Keep up the great podcast!

-Jed from Philippines

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:36:17 +0000

Shannon,

I understand where you’re coming from on this. I’ll keep an eye on this in future episodes.

Michael

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:21:28 +0000

Hi there, I’d like a little more of “typical” when talk about gender based behaviour — as a female who DOESN’T have a lot of typical female skills, I find saying “girls do XX, b0ys do YYY” very annoying — you did use “typical in a few places, but not initally.

Thanks!
(PS, yeah, I blame this on my mother not raising me right — in a good way)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:07:31 +0000

Thanks Lily!

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:00:36 +0000

Ingenious!
I love this podcast.
Happy Birthday from Germany. You’ve got quite bunch of fans here, too.