It’s definitely an older study, because it was at least ten years old around 2001.

Yes! This study! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers it. My dad vehemently opposed sending me to an all girl’s high school because my male peers would suffer for it and also I’d come out a lesbian. He wanted me to attend the more expensive co-ed school across town (about 80 minutes to get to school during…

When I was very young (like 6 or 7), back when it was ADD, a teacher suggested to my parents that I might be ADD. I’m a girl, and my father absolutely refused to have me tested because I wasn’t a “problem child” and sent me to one of those behavior-training tutor places. I was just told I was a bad student. It wasn’t…

Say that being a woman is being a quadrilateral (a shape with four sides). You can say that being a white woman is rhombus and a WOC is a paralleogram and a transwoman is a trapezoid and a woman with nonstandard genetics like those exhaustively discussed in another thread is a rectangle. However you want to divy that…

My primary theory here is this: Because, here in Texas at least, American history classes stop with Lincoln getting shot (World/European history classes will sometimes rush to get to WWII), you come out of school thinking racism ended in the sixties when women’s rights were also fixed. And if you live in your…