woman's inhumanity to woman

[Guest guest]

this book is insane. it's by phyllis chesler and investigates the

covert hostility women express toward one another. very interesting.

i wanted to share a passage.

In a 1992 study, L. Rowel Huesman found that inner-city, mainly African-

American children in Chicago as young as eight or nine expressed

different views about aggression as a function of gender. Girls, more

than boys SAID that aggression is wrong. Believing that aggression is

wrong is potentially a very positive social trait. But, if girls, not

boys, are trained only to SAY that aggression is wrong, even while

continuing to ACT in aggressive ways, then girls, even more than boys,

may be learning to disassociate themselves from any negative thing they

do and deny that they have done it, even to themselves. This

disassociative capacity might prove quite resistant to the

acknowledgement that is required before one can change one's own

aggresssive behavior.

i don't know about you, but alarm bells just went off for me.

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