Gender Norms: Always Limiting, Sometimes Deadly | Lisa Cravens-Brown | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

As a professor in women's, gender, and sexuality studies, Lisa has thought about these topics and the issues around them. By using an explicative to start her talk, Dr. Lisa Cravens-Brown captures the audience's attention to talk about the real issue. Socially constructed gender norms are always limiting, often harmful, and sometimes deadly.
Dr. Cravens-Brown is a triple alumna of The Ohio State University, with a bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. in clinical child psychology. She started teaching at OSU as a graduate student and was hooked from the start. She was a 2014 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer, and also has won the psychology department’s distinguished teaching award. She was named by the Princeton Review as one of the Top 300 Professors in the U.S. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the department of psychology, where she teaches several large undergraduate courses and coordinates two department-wide courses. She also gives numerous talks on campus each year. In her limited spare time, she participates in community theater productions as an actor, singer, dancer, and director.
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[@chayrossing]

HER DROPPING THE F SLUR GOING CRAZY

[@nataschabenni2001]

Can we all agree that focusing on deconstructing words in order to overcome the power we gave to them in the first place is actually unimportant in the grand scheme of things? You don't see men redefining words as a group in order to overcome insecurity. Instead, men focus on overall toughness and the ability to cope with negativity. If women want 100% equality, they have to put up a literal fight, the same way men have to. Advocate for toughness and perseverance.

[@penny4thought168]

Nobody is? I don't understand your point.

[@christianlabor5553]

If it's vulgar or senselessly violent, it will figure prominently in progressive politics.

[@caramelunicorn8023]

I'm sorry but none of this makes sense, nor is it relevant. How on earth does ticking a box for male and female affect your performance? You must be really self-conscious. And yes I agree please use a REAL WORLD example.

[@jesseladanyi9054]

The speakers is referring to stereotype threat (Steele & Aaronson, 1995). When people feel anxious, as might happen when they are feeling they aren't "good enough" to pass an exam, then some of their mental energy is taken away from the actual exam. This reduces performance.
It's one of the most "real world" phenomena out there. This sort of thing happens outside of school exams. Another (silly) example: Tell a white man that a sports game is a test of "natural ability", and his performance decreases (after all, "white boys can't jump") compared to if you told him it's a test of "athletic intelligence" (Grimm et al., 2016)