Baby Boomers: Honk Like A Girl đ
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4 min readFeb 17, 2017
Someone cut in front of me, so I honked at him. It wasnât much of a honk, more like a honklette. So I said to myself, âYou honk like a girl.â âLike a girlâ! Where did that come from? I thought about the video I had seen, âAlways #LikeAGirlâ 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:
- Donât be too smart, boys wonât like you.
- Be a teacher or a nurse, they are good jobs for a girl.
- Donât go to law school; youâll take the place of a man who needs to support his wife.
- Do they give mortgages to women?
- Girls arenât good at math.
- Girls arenât supposed to have muscles.
- Donât sleep around. Why should they buy the cow when they canâŚ