Modern Versions of “Sugar & Spice, and Everything Nice”
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5 min readFeb 22, 2020
And how they set girls up to tolerate abuse
When I was growing up in the 1970s, adults frequently reproached me with “girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice.” This was their way of saying, “stop it,” the way you are behaving is not lady-like, perhaps because I was playing like a tomboy, speaking up for myself or questioning their authority. The phrase…
