What gender are you?

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

I find that when men are afraid of snakes its normally a real fear. I've noticed that with some women that are afraid of snakes that they are afraid probably because they are 'supposed' to. I know that probably came out wrong, but think about it. When you watched cartoons as a kid, didn't the mother get up on a chair and shout if she saw a reptile or rodent in her house. Then the father would come along and get rid of it. When I talk to my girl friends about Zim, most get all afraid and say they are not coming over to my house. My guy friends normally think its pretty cool. Two of my girl friends have liked Zim though and thought he was neat. My brother, however, is terrified, and won't even go near the cage.

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yeah, I feel you... women are socialized to be freaked out by reptiles and rodents I think... :colbert: whereas when a man says he's scared (since he's socialized to be a big brave man) he's actually scared... that makes great sense, good observation IMO JB!

I'm always looking into gender roles and such. My mother says I'd do great in psychology.

People in general tend to view the snake as an evil thing. My friend's father is a prime example. When my friend wanted to keep a snake at her house for a friend, she decided to bring the subject up to her father first. He went balistic. He kept going on and on about how snakes are evil and they are cursed by god. He didn't want that evil in his house, since snakes are from the devil.

When she told me this, I actually started to laugh. It was the most obsurd thing I had ever heard come out of someones mouth.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

I'm always looking into gender roles and such. My mother says I'd do great in psychology.

People in general tend to view the snake as an evil thing. My friend's father is a prime example. When my friend wanted to keep a snake at her house for a friend, she decided to bring the subject up to her father first. He went balistic. He kept going on and on about how snakes are evil and they are cursed by god. He didn't want that evil in his house, since snakes are from the devil.

When she told me this, I actually started to laugh. It was the most obsurd thing I had ever heard come out of someones mouth.

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Aww yes, the serpent that caused Eve to ruin life in Eden... Speaking of feminism and Eve... I heard recently (from my sister who's a women and gender study student at State) that the pomegranate was possibly the fruit that Eve ate that was forbidden, and it was forbidden because of some kind of birth control effects in the pomegranate :eek: and that's why she was punished... so many interesting theories that I only half listen to as we're smokin' in the living room :D

Psychology is fun, but a BA in it won't get you far :D even with minors in Crim and Sociology (another sub you'd likely excel in)... you and me could have some great discussions I think :sunny:

I'm always up for a discussion. Strange that they would name the pomegranate. I love that stuff, and its good for you too. :carrot:

My mom thought I'd go into forensics, but I can't do dead bodies.

Well that was just a theory of one of her fav professor... forensics is fun, but I think I like it best on TV... I don't think it'd be exciting at all nor would it be glamorous... like being a receptionist is though ? :D

I had a positive influence as a kid, regarding snakes. My dad's boss was (and is) an animal lover, and we were out at her farm.. she talked about how gardening outside in bare feet did not bother her, and when she saw snakes, she would thank them for eating all of the mice and rats around, and let them just go by without any hassle.. I definately think that early influences matter most. You see parents at the zoo, looking at the snakes with their kids and saying "eeew!" and of course, the kid will probably pick up on that..

it's funny, people nowadays say to never judge someone by their looks.unfortunately they dont do the same thing with animals.they find out 1 snake is venomous and suddenly they're all venomous. actually while working at petco yesterday i met this girl and she said she LOVES ball pythons. i havent heard a girl around here say that since i started snake keeping.

Aaaaaaaall girl here. :D


I grew up on a farm, and wasn't taught to fear snakes. We'd always find the skinny, fast garter snakes fascinating, and were taught VERY early on how to watch and listen for rattlers.

Most (if not all) fears are learned at a very early age. It's been proven over and over again in early child behaviour studies that babies learn fears from their caregivers. If Mom panics after Junior falls off the trike, then Jr. learns to scream more even if he isn't hurt. Babies have no fear of "falling" when crossing a glass cover over stairs to Mom on the other side, if Mom encourages the crawling. It's when Mom is fearful, that baby won't crawl, even if the glass (being solid and stable) is okay.

< I had an image here of the stairs and mom/baby study but it didn't save and xfer :oops: >


I grew up lucky in that even w/my mom HATING mice, others in the family thought it was no big deal. I don't fear or dislike snakes, spiders or other inverts, but things like roaches gross me out b/c of disease spread. :bleh:

I just don't find pet roaches or 'pedes of any interest.

Everything else posted in this thread is rather interesting, but I can't come up with any thoughts, haha. So, I'll just leave my plain ol' "female" answer.

jeez.... we're kinda outnumbered here!