jamie's wanderings

 There is a lot of discussion about gender, roles and what these all mean, and it is only gotten worse since I was a kid. And maybe because it is the end of pride month, but I've thought alot about it the last couple of days, and my MO is to write things out, so here goes. Andrew and I have been watching an old show, Stargate, made in the late 90s early 2000s and one of the main female characters keeps impressing me. She's military, short blond hair they grow out later (probably just for a change) and keeps up with the boys, but by no means do they make her butch. She's a woman, a scientist, the smartest one of the bunch, yet has romance and feelings and wisdom and connection that they all look and need desperately. At the same time, I'm watching the men in Venezuela rescue people from the horrific double tap earthquake that toppled building like they were mere legos. The rescues themselves are enough to give you goosebumps, but it's what you see and hear the men sa...