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I remember my mother telling me to let people win at games, especially the boys, because people wouldn't like me if I won all the time.
I remember my mother stopping me as I was about to go out the front door at a neighbourhood party. She asked me what I was doing and I said I was going to go climb trees with the other kids. She told me I wasn't allowed to. I thought I should be allowed to. As evidence for my case, I pointed out that David (her friend's son) was already half way up. She said "That's different, David is a boy."
I remember David using this as evidence for his case that boys are better than girls. It had the stamp of parental authority ergo it was, as far as he was concerned, indisputable.
I remember learning at school about how things were "in the past" (a strange and mysterious time in which men and women were treated differently and women couldn't do all the things that men could do, a time in which they were even raised differently and taught different things and wasn't that silly and aren't we lucky, boys and girls, to live in a time in which everybody is treated the same).
I remember my mother stopping me as I was about to go out the front door at a neighbourhood party. She asked me what I was doing and I said I was going to go climb trees with the other kids. She told me I wasn't allowed to. I thought I should be allowed to. As evidence for my case, I pointed out that David (her friend's son) was already half way up. She said "That's different, David is a boy."
I remember David using this as evidence for his case that boys are better than girls. It had the stamp of parental authority ergo it was, as far as he was concerned, indisputable.
I remember learning at school about how things were "in the past" (a strange and mysterious time in which men and women were treated differently and women couldn't do all the things that men could do, a time in which they were even raised differently and taught different things and wasn't that silly and aren't we lucky, boys and girls, to live in a time in which everybody is treated the same).