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Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared?-NYT
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My wife still has self confidence issues instilled by her mother. She and her sister were taught to be afraid of everything. They weren't allowed to go swimming as kids because "you could drown if you go in the water." They weren't allowed on the monkey bars because "that's how you get a broken arm." To this day, her mother refuses to have a candle in her house because she heard once that a candle burned down a house.

I'm glad for all of the freedom I had as a kid, all of the stitches and burned fingers taught me a lot of important lessons and also let me develop me own better understanding of the world around me.

Ignorance=Fear
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Re: Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared?-NYT - by archipirata - 02-23-2016, 04:36 PM

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