React to the first couple classes we've had. Is this stuff new? Old hat? Exciting? Bullshit? What do YOU think??

I signed up for this course hoping to thoroughly enjoy lectures and all the time spent in/out/ and on classwork, so far my expectations have been surpassed.  I really am already enjoying all the discussions and activities going on in lecture.  Which is quite a feat since lecture time is 3 hours long, and as of yet, the time has flown by.  

As for the course content, what I really like is that it's a safe environment where I can feel free to express my true opinion even if it's not the liberal typical Boulder view, or likewise a close-minded conservative perspective.  As you can see I already have somewhat of a bias going into this class, but I am hoping to hear different views from all the students and learn more about gender, and people's thought on gender and our society that I have not considered yet, or haven't understood.

I also am surprised at what I've already learned in lecture.  For example the phall-o-meter.. are you kidding me?  The fact that a society that is so technologically advanced and is yet so far behind when it comes to cognitive and logical, not to mention equal thinking really astounds me.  I have a feeling that I'm going to learn and be surprised by a lot in this course.  I was raised in a military, republican family in Colorado Springs with Focus on the Family dominating much of my media, so I think that this course is going to be very insightful and relative to my future ideals and methods of thinking.