WARNING SEXUAL CONTENT Re: Re: Nadas and sex

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Gender socialization plays a huge role in why women aren't more

inclined to go fix the car. It's not just that we are interested in

other things and therefore don't have time to fix the car; that

interestedness (or disinteredness) is something we are taught and so

we pick it up from a young age. We're taught that guys are the ones

who are more interested in that/better at that.

This becomes really obvious when you are fortunate enough to be in an

environment where gender socialization breaks down. For instance,

back in the day I went to a magnet high school for

math/science/engineering. There were just as many girls as there

were boys, and no one ever acted like it was strange that the girls

were there or had ambitions toward these fields. It wasn't until I

went to college that I heard of things like the Society for Women in

Engineering and realized how marginalized our gender is in these

fields. When I didn't know we weren't supposed to care about such

things, it never even occurred to me not to care, be interested, and

excel in them myself.

S.

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> > > My mother had to play stupid in front of men because

> > > she believed that they would be intimidated if they

> > > thought she was smart. Great lesson to teach your

> > > daughter.

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> > > She also has the 'always look good' in front of men

> > > thing, like dressing up to take out the garbage.

> > > Except that she really actually did dress up to talk

> > > out the garbage. She lived in an apartment for years

> > > and always reminded me to look my best in the elevator

> > > because you never knew who you might meet.

> > >

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