When my sisters talk about baked goods like brownies, they often would ask if people liked their brownies male or female. What they mean by that is, with nuts or without. Well, we celebrated a birthday here at work today, and baked goods were brought in. I asked if the banana bread was male or…
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In her book Delusions of Gender, psychologist Cordelia Fine notes how early this all begins. In preschool, she says, children become “gender detectives,” because they are organized by gender and referred to by gender constantly. “Everything around the child,” Fine writes, “indicates that whether one is male or female is a matter of great importance.”…
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