Response to Tonya's Eureka moment...

Hi Tonya,
I think the same way as Nicolef and Teandra. We always try to look in our best whether we are at home or outside, with family or friends. This is not only for women in US, but all women from all different cultures,and religions want always to look beautiful, young and sexy. Have fun in Puerto Rico and enjoy your vacation...

Response to Teandra's Eureka Moment...Week 2

I think no matter how hard we try, man will still ignore us if we are discussing a topic that has to do more with masculine than feminine. The same thing if females are discussing feminine situation and one male tried to talk over them, the females will ignore him as if he doesn't exist until they finish their talk.

This happened with friend of mine when he went with his fiancé and three of her friends to pick kitchen items to list them for her bridal shower. His fiancé and her friends start arguing whether to pick electrics tools or just regular cooks' tools. He was trying to tell them what he thinks and why but no one was listening to him and his fiancé keeps telling him "it is not his business" so he left them and went to different place.

I think as I said it depends on the topic and who is discussing it.

Response to Kesha's Eureka Moment...Week 2

My comment will be probably different than anyone else. My comment is not about what I think only, but it is about how the society I use to live in "Lebanon" think about this.

In my Country Lebanon, people don't allow couple to live together unless they are married, and they don't allow them to dates for long time too. If a couple been dating for several years, they will say that the guy doesn't really wants the girl but he just want to have fun with her or he is dating her until he finds a better girl...

I don't know why they only blame the boy and they don't say anything about the girl. It might be because in my country boys has more power than girls.

I don't agree with that, and I always fight with my parents and friends about it. I believe that the couple should live together before they get marry so they can know each other more.

Week 2...Eureka Moment

I work in a Pharmacy and we are not allow to bag family members prescriptions together, even if they were dropped together to the pharmacy by one of the family members. we have to give each member prescription separately, and give it only if the person asked for it.

So many times, a wife drops off prescriptions for her and for her husband, but when she comes to pick them up, she only asks for her prescriptions and she says that the husband will come to pick up his prescriptions after work or something like that. But, when a husband drops off prescriptions for him and for his wife, when he picks them up, he asks about his prescriptions and his wife's prescriptions.

For some reason, I always thought it will be the opposite, that is the wife will pick all family members prescriptions and not the husband. But it seems that I was wrong and I still could not figure out why it is that way.

Do you think this is because the husband cares more about the wife, or it is because ladies don't like to spend a lot of money on something it is not for them "as they say".

Maissa's Blog

My name is Maissa Chebly. I am originally from Lebanon, but I've been in US for 9 years. I am in my senior year. I am enrolled in Gender and Communication class to learn more about the way society looks at gender.
This is my second online class, but this class involve more works on blackboard and blogs than my previous one.
I hope I will learn from it as much as I can.