I did my blackboard post on lack of female leaders in the Catholic Church. I feel strongly about that issue only becuase of its inherent unfairness. I do not attend Catholic Church or any other for that matter so it does not personally affect me. If they had female priests I doubt very much I would return. There is so much corruption in the history of the church that I find it difficult to be a supporter.
The other issue that I am really interested in is how disability affects one's identity. This is an unresearched thought, but it seems to me men have a more difficult time adjusting to disability, even aging, than women do. That may be a stereotype that I have bought into, but it seems like men bemoan the diminishing of their former strenght. Maybe women never used their physical strength as much so the loss of it is less jarring. So given that my father who is 76 and my husband who is 53 both mention the things that they 'USED to be able to do with ease and now it's so much harder' I can't imagine that men who suffer a physical disability through accident or war would not have a hard time reconfiguring their identity in light of their gender.
The other issue I am interested is female poverty. I think there are statistics which back up that there are more females in poverty than there are men in poverty. Many times women are single mothers and have the added responsibility of providing for their children.
Those are my ideas. I am happy for any feedback on any or all of them.
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I agree that men have a more difficult time adjusting to disabilities. My father was in major car accident when I was about 5 years old. He has a closed head injury from being throw from the vehicle. The head injury caused a loss in memory. He didn't even remember that he had a wife and kids. Til this day he deals with the affects of this accident. His brain doesn't process things at the speed of a normal brain and he has bad short term memory. It has also caused him to age quicker. This lack of ability really fraustrates him that he can't work at the same level as before. After his recovery he couldn't return to his previous job because you need good balance to work on the construction of highrises.
ReplyDeletei'm intrested in your first idea. i would think about since u don't go to church ur veiws might be different than others.
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