ooo, I could use those adamantium claws. I've been scraping my poor nails during rock climbing.
And a study of the converse, giving boys nothing but dolls to play and so on with would be quite interesting, though many people would probably draw altogether different conclusions from that...
...which is yet another social problem; girls playing at being boys is looked upon completely differently than boys playing at being girls. If Summers had given his boy-children girl-toys, people would have considered his actions in a completely different light.
We're far from a gender-neutral society, here.
Here's a tangentially-related link discussing a gender-related "issue" among women in technical/well-paying professions.
XD That's priceless. I never thought of advanced degrees as being a hindrance in the marital marketplace. But the social custom of the male being the primary breadwinner is yet another facet of the situation...
Little do we know that kittenscribble is actually the ghostwriter of the next Pixar film,
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Date: 2005-02-23 09:14 pm (UTC)And a study of the converse, giving boys nothing but dolls to play and so on with would be quite interesting, though many people would probably draw altogether different conclusions from that...
...which is yet another social problem; girls playing at being boys is looked upon completely differently than boys playing at being girls. If Summers had given his boy-children girl-toys, people would have considered his actions in a completely different light.
We're far from a gender-neutral society, here.
Here's a tangentially-related link discussing a gender-related "issue" among women in technical/well-paying professions.
XD That's priceless. I never thought of advanced degrees as being a hindrance in the marital marketplace. But the social custom of the male being the primary breadwinner is yet another facet of the situation...
Little do we know that kittenscribble is actually the ghostwriter of the next Pixar film,
Now that makes me unreasonably happy.