So it is a more subtle discrimination: people teach their kids to identify gender by signs like "long hair" or "wearing skirts" or whatever (or possibly it isn't taught, it is picked up from pattern association).
Exactly. And it starts so early. When kids start learning to use pronouns, we automatically correct them to say "he" and "she" when appropriate, because, let's face it, it's rude to call someone by the wrong one.
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Exactly. And it starts so early. When kids start learning to use pronouns, we automatically correct them to say "he" and "she" when appropriate, because, let's face it, it's rude to call someone by the wrong one.