I think that it is not consider a cool part of girl culture to be modest anymore...
Well if that's so, that's great. See, I get two viewpoints on the world -- my liberal-elite friends and co-workers who buy subversive feminist books for their children, trucks for their daughters, and dolls for their sons -- and my parents, who are still dismayed that I can't keep up with the housework and have to force my poor over-worked husband to pick up the slack and who still sometimes chastise me for laughing too loudly. So yay, girl empowerment!
And you should count me in with ukelele as another girl who hated group projects.
And I guess I'm dismayed that now that the girls are starting to out-achieve the boys, the pendulum will swing back the other way and girls will be pushed to the back burner again -- especially in math and science fields, since boys do still outnumber girls there. I wish there were a good way to help all students in all areas of academics, not have the assumption that English is a girly subject and math is a boy-ey subject.
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Well if that's so, that's great. See, I get two viewpoints on the world -- my liberal-elite friends and co-workers who buy subversive feminist books for their children, trucks for their daughters, and dolls for their sons -- and my parents, who are still dismayed that I can't keep up with the housework and have to force my poor over-worked husband to pick up the slack and who still sometimes chastise me for laughing too loudly. So yay, girl empowerment!
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And I guess I'm dismayed that now that the girls are starting to out-achieve the boys, the pendulum will swing back the other way and girls will be pushed to the back burner again -- especially in math and science fields, since boys do still outnumber girls there. I wish there were a good way to help all students in all areas of academics, not have the assumption that English is a girly subject and math is a boy-ey subject.