Tag: parenting

smitethepatriarchy:

grradical:

astro-stoner:

I found this in my developmental psychology textbook.

Seeing studies like this always make me want to scream at the people who say that men are naturally superior in science and mathematics and women are simply naturally oriented toward literature and history. Imagine if girls were just raised like boys and given the opportunities to be successful or encouraged to pursue STEM education. How much “smarter” would women be if we began the race at the starting line instead of 100 feet behind?

Wowwww.

We fight this.  Raising our girls, we do our best to explain science to them whenever they ask, looking up details on our phones if we’ve forgotten something.  But this doesn’t surprise me at all.  We fight this culture all the time.  Just like we fight so many aspects of our society’s views of girls… which aren’t as bad as in some cultures, but almost harder to fight for their subtlety.  Like this.