We all collude in teaching girls social mores that convey to them, - TopicsExpress



          

We all collude in teaching girls social mores that convey to them, and to boys around them, that what they say has to be more carefully regulated, and matters less. Parents are twice as likely to interrupt or talk over daughters than sons and conversations initiated with girls are also twice as likely to involve chores. Boys are socialized to use humor and aggressive speech as markers of masculinity. It seems to me that male dominance of hard topics in media, for example, or the fact that there are far fewer female critics (a fundamentally impolite form of speech) are easily tied to this early socialization. - Soraya Chemaly, Salon
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 02:21:15 +0000

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