Posted by Tabitha on July 7, 2016, at 14:53:58
In reply to Re: Emotional reactions to news » Phillipa, posted by Dinah on July 6, 2016, at 23:28:05
> You know, it's the oddest thing. I must have been born slightly too late to understand the big deal about male/female. No one ever told me I couldn't be anything I wanted to be. Girls were perhaps more likely than boys to be at the top of my classes. As many women as men of my acquaintance were likely to be the dominant member of families. I've been surprised to discover that Mormons have a bad reputation about feminism. Most of the Mormon women I grew up with were incredibly strong role models with husbands who respected them and treated them as equal partners. I've never had the tiniest pushback on my gender in the workplace. I don't think my parents ever in my life built any expectation whatsoever on my gender.
It's great that you grew up with that mindset. I got the message that women were inferior, or even if they weren't inferior, were supposed to be subservient to men anyway. I always rebelled against the idea. Even after escaping that background, I still struggled with it, because it was so difficult to distinguish sexism from just run of the mill lack of respect and consideration for others. I'm not sure why it even matters, really, but it just still outrages me to think I'm getting treated as less than based on my gender, or to have others dismiss the possibility.
> Even if you buy into arguments about hormones, surely that is no longer an issue in this particular case.ha ha ha, that's just what I was thinking. The hormonal factor just isn't so prevalent as we age.
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