There’s a limited practical diff between telling girls they won’t succeed because they lack something & telling girls they won’t succeed because *the world thinks* they lack something. Both anchor young people to an approval/permission-seeking mindset that would slow anyone down
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Replying to @webdevMason
This. I got all the way through a bachelor’s in math without objection or discouragement from anyone involved. THEN contemporary feminists/feminist lit started telling me nobody thinks I can do math.
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Replying to @SaraBollman @webdevMason
My fear is that younger girls are hearing these horror stories about horror stories and may actually believe them.
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