That's the beginning of a conversation shared on Deanna Hoak's post "Conversation with my five year old - or - exasperating mother" Ms. Hoak is a mom and a fantasy and sci-fi copyeditor (hip and accurate enough to be short-listed for a 2007 World Fantasy Award for copyediting). Apparently she is also a video game player and a girl!
Her son is a five year old gamely learning our social myths about men vs. women, and expressing frustration when his mom won't fall into her assigned role. *mothers! sheese!*
The exchange caught my eye... well, let's just admit it. It caught my eye because I've been soap-boxing about the socially manufactured myth that boy literacy is different than girl literacy.
But also because I just finished reading Deborah Cameron's The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages? (2007:OUP).
For a quick overview, see here. But, really, just do read the book.
It's short, clear and to the point.
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