Wait a minute. You say, "Related to the above, the ability to project confidence that you know what you are doing. Girls and women are to often educated to soften their words, to compromise even when they are right, to not sound too definite for fear of sounding "aggressive". However, as part of projecting that confidence, you have to be able to not alienate certain masculine egos for fear of being a "bitch" or a "harpy" or "strident". It can be done, as I can attest."
And then say that you haven't encountered sexism? You have to very carefully work to appear just strong enough but not too strong so that you sound like a bitch, a harpy, or strident... and that's not sexism? I've never encountered a man who worried about any of those things.
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Date: 2010-06-11 04:43 pm (UTC)And then say that you haven't encountered sexism? You have to very carefully work to appear just strong enough but not too strong so that you sound like a bitch, a harpy, or strident... and that's not sexism? I've never encountered a man who worried about any of those things.