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My Question of the Day: If it would help you understand the opposite gender better, would you be willing to switch from being a woman to a man or a man to a woman for a week to gain this knowledge?

(someone sent me this question several months ago, but I can’t recall who it is; please remind me if this is your question and I’ll make certain to give you credit; thanks!)

My 2 Cents: I had to give this one some serious thought.

I’m going to have to say no. Switching genders for a week would not be an option for me.

I don’t think that’s enough time to really understand what it is to be a man. Being the gender you are is so complex that it would definitely take much more than seven days to really understand the opposite gender.

The question makes me think of John Howard Griffin, the author of Black Like Me. Mr. Griffin wrote a book about his experiences of becoming a black man in the Deep South during Jim Crow rule (the 1950s).

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