Learning past and present

 One difference between the kind of education I had and that of many children today centres around how we were taught.

For most of my education for instance generally the teacher led the class learning determining what the days topic was in any given subject. They often would dictate notes or write them down on a chalk board for you to copy to your exercise book sometimes with drawings or diagrams too which was fun if you were not good at writing or spelling things as you'd struggle to keep up.

Sometimes we'd have school made duplicated work sheets for some subjects such as Combined Science to complete as we did experiments with Bunsen burners, electricity and magnets.

In History we often read from and makes notes using set text books and all homework (and there was heaps of it!) was to be completed by hand.

This scene would be almost familiar to me in high school as we'd move from old style individual wooden desks to clusters of tables and plastic chairs except for one thing.

That's right, where the girl is sat we'd have our exercise book but she has a laptop which looking at this picture closely is something most of her peers do not suggesting she has 'special needs' and has been given one for 'writing up things' with.

That is something I'd of benefited from personally as my hand writing was poor and spelling pretty rotten too.

At their school they have put the first years (11+) in a special converted unit to work on thinking, studying and life skills to help bridge the gap from the last years of junior school they have left to a secondary school.

A number of schools today have huge screens,  some interactive, for teaching with rather than chalkboards (they were called Blackboards until some edict came down saying that word was racist!) but debate rages as to whither or not this is any more effective from the chalkboard and rote learning we had.

Our responsibilities as Sissy Gurls

I saw this manga drawing a few days ago and liked it a lot although I had I been any good at drawing because what is is about is showing sensitivity to how as a feminine but biological boy is perceived in his new role sharing spaces among the other girls.

I think one of most important things is having respect for your inner feminine side, that's to say you don't put him in crass or otherwise crude situations if you wish to hold your own in the company of those born and raised as girls in whose world we are moving albeit as biological boys who dress more like girls.

Those of us who are sissy gurls can't just demand the right to accepted and be granted it; we may have to earn our right to be wear our uniforms as part of being regarded as the feminine gurls we truly feel.

It's also important to understand females have spent ages fighting discrimination in the home, in school and in work.

Gurls of our sort arguably need to both accept and embrace that same struggle fighting with our genetic sisters  for equal treatment in the workplace and supporting those who even in today's world get a bullet in the head for supporting girls education as fundamental human right. 

If you can, learn about those struggles and support our female counterparts in practical ways.

The path to our acceptance isn't easy but we need to take responsibility for making it as smooth as possible.

Why can't we get along?

I never understood what the exact issue was with with having a mixed group of friends even if most were of one sex or the other rather than this "you cannot be a friend with girl" and even play with them.

I mean we do have somethings in common and some gurls like me are more feminine and some girls more masculine  so there is a point where they and me surely could be at one in group playing with each other some of the time.

There is no reason I should not be able to dress more like this as the mood takes me as a sissy gurl whatever my biological sex might be as my gender and gender presentation which may be variant to some of my peers but hey we're al a bit variant  as the individuals were are. 

Rewind to 1972

A classic BBC TV children’s “Blue Peter” program line up from around 1972 with Peter Purves, Lesley Judd, Val Singleton and every boys favourite, John Noakes with program pets Petra, Jason and Shep from the era I was in Junior School.

It's enough for you to know that I have a poster of that scene being very much a part of my childhood and that I continue to watch the show several decades on, thoroughly enjoying it from the days of been glued to a 19 inch black and white tv to seeing in high definition digital colour today.

It's not the only thing from that era that left a major influence on me.

Although things were topsy-turvy back then for being more like a girl and grown ups less understanding of than today the values of Scouting played a major part within it back then.

While what the boys wore I could live with in more robust play I preferred to wear dresses and skirts especially for more formal things like school and scouting.

Back then I didn't know what to call that.

Of course back then I'd of wanted Sindy dolls to play with, dressing up and having adventures.