Week 5: Mortar and Pestle

Continuing on mindmaps, the class focused on mortar and pestle. It is a set of traditional tools, usually used for medicinal purposes or cooking. It is made of stone, therefore hard enough to mash seeds or herbs together into sauces or pasty medicine.

The idea was, what other functions could it have other than just mashing things? What could people use it for in the future? The difficult part was that, whatever it could be used for, it has to be in a set, and cannot be separated.

From there, the lesson branched from just mortar and pestle, to what other pairings could be compared and what thoughts we would have about it. The main thing was about men and women. What would men write about women, and what would women write about men?

As a female, I think the boys are...okay to live with. Sure, most of them can be sexist and dominant, and most are a bit vulgar, but they are nice and can be real gentlemen in their own ways when they want to be. Everyone is unique, so we also have to look into the women. I think.