Mother of four young men. Boys are indeed a handful. Mine were particularly difficult, but I look on that zany, messy time with fondness. It's the time a mother gets to enjoy, because as they grow up they naturally don't want to be mothered any more. Our neighborhood was full of boys and our house was the base of operations. They made cardboard armor and ran up and down the street weapons in hand fighting whatever enemy they imagined. The battles they may have to fight now I certainly never imagined, but they are real. We live in nowhere special, but the girls they went to school with are thoroughly indoctrinated. It's like the Berkeley plague infected everyone without a Y chromosome.
And this is why I am careful when discussing topics in the classroom. Getting 'right coded' has serious risks in a world where the Berkley perspective is increasingly the norm.
Father of three girls and seven grandchildren - four of which are girls - I tell them that the opposite of the patriarchy is not the matriarchy, but anarchy. This post epitomizes my statement. Women left in charge become crazy...
"“You see a lot of this is about crazy girls,” says Diane, and they lose me again." That says a lot. And again when listening to an intersectional feminist speaker finally gives her the opportunity to listen "with an open mind."
Try as she might, the partisanship wins with her. In innumerate ways, which she seems to not even realize.
One of the things Whippman mentions in her book is that girls often form far deeper social relationships and care more about the maintenance of such relationships than boys do. Thus, girls are more likely to fear social ostracism than boys do. Being rejected by a group is far more scary to girls/women than to boys/men. So for Whippman, daring to stand out in Berkeley could prove a social death sentence, which is why she needed to make sure her beliefs were still on the “right side” more than the average man would need to do so.
Mother of four young men. Boys are indeed a handful. Mine were particularly difficult, but I look on that zany, messy time with fondness. It's the time a mother gets to enjoy, because as they grow up they naturally don't want to be mothered any more. Our neighborhood was full of boys and our house was the base of operations. They made cardboard armor and ran up and down the street weapons in hand fighting whatever enemy they imagined. The battles they may have to fight now I certainly never imagined, but they are real. We live in nowhere special, but the girls they went to school with are thoroughly indoctrinated. It's like the Berkeley plague infected everyone without a Y chromosome.
And this is why I am careful when discussing topics in the classroom. Getting 'right coded' has serious risks in a world where the Berkley perspective is increasingly the norm.
Father of three girls and seven grandchildren - four of which are girls - I tell them that the opposite of the patriarchy is not the matriarchy, but anarchy. This post epitomizes my statement. Women left in charge become crazy...
"“You see a lot of this is about crazy girls,” says Diane, and they lose me again." That says a lot. And again when listening to an intersectional feminist speaker finally gives her the opportunity to listen "with an open mind."
Try as she might, the partisanship wins with her. In innumerate ways, which she seems to not even realize.
One of the things Whippman mentions in her book is that girls often form far deeper social relationships and care more about the maintenance of such relationships than boys do. Thus, girls are more likely to fear social ostracism than boys do. Being rejected by a group is far more scary to girls/women than to boys/men. So for Whippman, daring to stand out in Berkeley could prove a social death sentence, which is why she needed to make sure her beliefs were still on the “right side” more than the average man would need to do so.
I will never truly understand the complete lack of self awareness.