Comments on: My Gender Biased History… http://kristonia-ink.com/Blog/my-gender-biased-history If you're not outraged, you're not listening. Silence is deadly... speak out! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:04:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Mike http://kristonia-ink.com/Blog/my-gender-biased-history#comment-2042 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:52:20 +0000 http://kristonia-ink.com/Blog/my-gender-biased-history#comment-2042 You were certainly much more observant than I was as a child, I was pretty much clueless of such things. The only thing that I remember from my childhood was when I was about 5 years old, my friend Laura and I got in a fight and I hit her. My mom, told me "Never hit a girl". I remember asking "What if they really deserve it?" To which my mom reiterated, "You never hit a girl" My mom is a strong woman and she didn't have a lot of pointless does and don'ts, so the ones she did have made a big impression. So on that day, to the list of "Look both ways before you cross the street", "always brush your teeth before you go to bed", and "never interupt mom when she is playing the piano", I added "Don't hit girls". In my mind this really translated to your biblical phrase of "girls are to be honored and protected" . I had a bit of trouble with that in my teen years, but it is really still embedded in there pretty solidly. In your last pararaph, you said that you asked deeper questions of the powerful women all around you. I am curious if you find any common themes in the answers that you get from these friends. The strong women in my life are so varied that they have a wide variety of views on just about everything. You were certainly much more observant than I was as a child, I was pretty much clueless of such things. The only thing that I remember from my childhood was when I was about 5 years old, my friend Laura and I got in a fight and I hit her. My mom, told me “Never hit a girl”. I remember asking “What if they really deserve it?” To which my mom reiterated, “You never hit a girl” My mom is a strong woman and she didn’t have a lot of pointless does and don’ts, so the ones she did have made a big impression. So on that day, to the list of “Look both ways before you cross the street”, “always brush your teeth before you go to bed”, and “never interupt mom when she is playing the piano”, I added “Don’t hit girls”. In my mind this really translated to your biblical phrase of “girls are to be honored and protected” . I had a bit of trouble with that in my teen years, but it is really still embedded in there pretty solidly.

In your last pararaph, you said that you asked deeper questions of the powerful women all around you. I am curious if you find any common themes in the answers that you get from these friends. The strong women in my life are so varied that they have a wide variety of views on just about everything.

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