Gender Bender

So, there's this tradition at Earlham.  At the end of Pride Week (LGBTQI) there's the Gender Bender dance.  The whole point is to dilute gender lines and of course, dress in drag.  The evening consisted of the men stuffing themselves with socks, going through the pains of putting on panty hose, getting make-up put on, and realizing why women have great quad muscles.  For us ladies, we put on some huge pants, got facial hair, and stuffed out hair up in hats.  It was fascinating watching how differently everyone interacted.  They were more comfortable expressing themselves and acting crazy because they were under the influence of stereotype different from their own personal norm.  It gave us a chance to unleash the wild side and opened the door to understanding (a little) better the opposite gender.  O yes, social experiments gone wild.