Baby Boomers: Honk Like A Girl 🚗

Someone cut in front of me, so I honked at him. It wasn’t much of a honk, more like a honklette. So I said to myself, “You honk like a girl.” “Like a girl”! Where did that come from? I thought about the video I had seen, “Always #LikeAGirl” and was ashamed of how sexist I sounded.

I grew up in the 50s, when negative stereotypes about girls were rampant. Here are a few of the sayings I, and women of my generation, grew up with:

• Don’t be too smart, boys won’t like you.
• Be a teacher or a nurse, they are good jobs for a girl.
• Don’t go to law school; you’ll take the place of a man who needs to support his wife.
• Do they give mortgages to women?
• Girls aren’t good at math.
• Girls aren’t supposed to have muscles.
• Don’t sleep around. Why should they buy the cow when they can…