I was walking down a road and talking with two of my childhood friends, one male and one female. We eventually got to a fork in the road. The two paths went in roughly the same direction but one was uphill while the other was downhill. My two friends walked along the uphill path while I went along the downhill one. After walking parallel along our paths for several minutes, we all stopped and I called out to my friends. They both jumped onto and slid down the grassy hill that was in between the two paths. After they reached the bottom, we were all together on the same path. My female friend started getting a little upset over how new pants got dirty from sliding down the hill and so sliding down the hill was a bad idea. We all got a laugh out of it in the end. We then all continued on down the same path.
-- Edited by 102intro on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 11:08:13 PM
This could be a representation of your thoughts about gender and sexism. Gender is the same for most of your early life (parallel paths in the beginning of the dream) but as you grow older and encounter obstacles (sliding down the hill), the women come away dirty but the men either come away clean or dirty, but no one cares. Society laughs off the traces of injustice still left behind and assume that since we have come so far already, we should overlook the way that we still have to go. Your friends went uphill to show that you were watching them from afar (observing sexism from your own perspective) while you went downhill, separating yourself from the mix (making an objective assessment of the situation).
