Random Acts of Kindness

This week in sociology were talking about what is normal and what isnt normal in our culture. For instance, this week we had to do what is reffered as a "random act of kindness" for someone we do not know, or we have to do something very unexpected for someone we do know. People dont usually bother with random acts of kindness for it is out of thier own schedule and they have to put in effort for the act. Plus it is seen as unusual to the person who is recieving the random act of kindness.These two factors discourage people usually from doing these random acts of kindness. What they forget to take into consideration though is the person who recieves the random act then feels good about themselves. It brings a sense to happiness to them and a sense of selflessness to the person who is giving the random act of kindness.

For example, my random act of kindness was to congradulate another team memeber on the opposing team we just played in a game.I could tell that she was very upset for they had just lost and that she had done her best. Yet when I complimented her on how well she did she smiled, and all of the sudden her mood changed from a negative one to a positive one. Making not only her feel good, but I as well for making her happy with a simple complement.

How do we view ourselves?

In Soc we talked about how the public generalizes genders. Yet we are taught from a very young age that girls are supposed to be thin, pretty, and flawless. We spend so much time only learning about the feminine generalizaton that the male generalization slips our minds. Sometimes we take it for granted that guys just come off more tough, or less talkitive than girls. Thats why I found the first movie about generalization of guys to be very intresting, and when I went home to observe my little brother to see if he fit the part, I found that everything the movie was telling me was true.
He tends to play with nerf guns all the time, which at first I thought meant nothing. Then I started to realize that everytime he was holding the guns or playing with them his language would become meaner, as well as his attidudes towards certain things or people. Yet when it was just me and him, his more feminine side started to show such as politness seeing that I was not a person who he had to prove himself to.