Gender Roles and characteristics

        This week in class we talked a lot about the different roles and characteristics that male and female genders have. After looking at this list and talking with my wife about it we came to realize that there were some interesting differences between her and me. Here is the list we came up with in class.
            
            Male                          Female
        Aggressive                    Cooperative
       Competitive                       Passive
   Spacial Oriented           Relationship Oriented
     Task Oriented              More Nurturing
 Analytically Minded       Landmark Orientated
 Closed Emotionally         Emotionally Minded
                                           Detail Oriented
                                         Open Emotionally

          An important thing to consider about this list is that these characteristics are not representative of all males and females. This list only states what characteristics a large majority of the male population and female population have.
           For example, i am not a competitive person by any means. What i find myself doing more in competitive situations is egging the competitive people on and giving them a hard time because i find that kind of thing hilarious. I understand that this might not be the best thing to do but so far i haven't been beat up doing it. My wife however is extremely competitive and very aggressive on jumping on any opportunity that is presented to her. I am similar in aggressiveness but i don't jump on every opportunity in the moment until i have analyzed the pros and cons.
            My wife is very emotionally minded and open however which does lead to some pretty interesting conversations and situations because men find those situations difficult. i am also very analytically minded and task oriented whereas my wife is very detail oriented and relationship oriented.