This article popped up the day before we gathered and was sent out as a conversation starter .. if we needed such a thing! I emailed it anyway.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/succession-logan-roy-narcissism-abusive-parent/102231658
It describes the plight of a TV series family in which the adult children try extraordinarily hard to appease a difficult .. often abusive … parent, to no avail. The article also included many excellent links to the various theories about this familial discord – including a link to “Schema” (not schemer) theory. This was a new rabbit hole for us .. and down we went for a look.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/succession-logan-roy-narcissism-abusive-parent/102231658
It describes the plight of a TV series family in which the adult children try extraordinarily hard to appease a difficult .. often abusive … parent, to no avail. The article also included many excellent links to the various theories about this familial discord – including a link to “Schema” (not schemer) theory. This was a new rabbit hole for us .. and down we went for a look.
By the time we had explored “Schema” theory and its application to some day-to-day examples, we discovered we were discussing the potentially confronting topic of gender, sex, and transitioning. Having been raised in a gender binary, and more likely to hear the term “fluidity” in a Form 4 science lab, gender fluidity and cultural change became the day’s topic.
Two hours later we had discussed DNA, sex, gender, chromosomes, parental responses to gender fluidity, parenting and supporting a transitioning child, social responses to transitioning children and adults, challenges in sports, the relatively short history of a binary world, historical and cultural attitudes to gender diversity, the social and economic reasons for some of these attitudes .. and much more.
It was time to depart.
Then .. a “History of multiple genders” on Tick Tok popped up on my facebook .. a fascinating chat, though not to be quoted in respected science journals. See link below.
(The drawing down the side of this report? It’s an Adobe Stock visual of the evolution of our group discussions.)
“History of multiple genders” https://www.facebook.com/reel/1883370048692216?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=6AJuK9
Two hours later we had discussed DNA, sex, gender, chromosomes, parental responses to gender fluidity, parenting and supporting a transitioning child, social responses to transitioning children and adults, challenges in sports, the relatively short history of a binary world, historical and cultural attitudes to gender diversity, the social and economic reasons for some of these attitudes .. and much more.
It was time to depart.
Then .. a “History of multiple genders” on Tick Tok popped up on my facebook .. a fascinating chat, though not to be quoted in respected science journals. See link below.
(The drawing down the side of this report? It’s an Adobe Stock visual of the evolution of our group discussions.)
“History of multiple genders” https://www.facebook.com/reel/1883370048692216?sfnsn=mo&s=F5x8gs&fs=e&mibextid=6AJuK9
Ps … Many thanks to Glenys and to Andrew for May’s topics:
Next Psychology Discussion group: Thursday 18 May 2-4 pm @ Ruby Blue Café – Nunn Street.
Contact: Jane Rushworth 0437 621 575
- Leadership, and
- Writing your own obituary.
Next Psychology Discussion group: Thursday 18 May 2-4 pm @ Ruby Blue Café – Nunn Street.
Contact: Jane Rushworth 0437 621 575
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