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8. The description of the Nazi attitude about

gender and sexuality reminded me of attitudes in the US in the 1950s and 1960s when Freudian psychology was accepted as absolute and unquestionable. It was taught in psych classes in colleges. Even in junior and senior high school, some of our courses had short units on psychology and we were taught the Freudian model of human development and gender identity. Anything outside of that model was "deviant" and a sign of mental illness.

Social attitudes and roles were pretty rigid then. Teachers were expected to guide students away from "deviant" behavior and toward "normal" behavior. Acceptable sports for girls were swimming, volleyball, badminton, and tennis. For boys it was baseball, basketball, football, track, tennis, and swimming. For the boy's sports, girls were supposed to be cheerleaders or spectators.

For electives, everyone could take music and art. But only girls could take sewing and cooking. Only boys could take drafting and woodworking.

Wexl were raised to believe in a binary world of male/female and normal/deviant.