It started when I was of young age, about seven or eight years old. I had been forced to cut my hair due to the lice on my head. Naturally, I cried during the process, but it was safe to say that after the haircut, I became curious about the fact that my image screamed a feminine looking boy. Then, an idea suddenly popped into my brain, and I took my shirt off, puffing my chest. Seeing my friends, they always took their shirts off every time we played outside, as well as my father, every time he was exhausted from work. In all honesty, I passed as a young boy with no boobs, so maybe, just maybe, I could be a boy for one day. It turned out to be more difficult than I had imagined. My friends thought I was a bit delusional for acting the opposite
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“The woman’s style is called ‘covert,’ a term suggesting negative qualities like being ‘sneaky’ and ‘underhanded’”(¶3). Take the example of a man saying, “give me a glass of water, please,” and a woman saying, “gee, I sure am thirsty and would like a glass of water.” In this sense, the man is seen as powerful for being direct, while the woman is perceived as sly or cunning for being indirect. Conversely, in other countries, men are graced with respect for their indirectness and women are stigmatized for their “crudeness” due to their direct style of language. “... In a Malagasy-speaking village on the island of Madagascar, it is women who are direct and men who are indirect… Villagers see the men’s indirect way of speaking… as the better way… They regard women’s direct style as clumsy and crude, debasing the beautiful subtlety of men’s language”(¶9, Tannen). This awful reality spells that women are generally interpreted as of low status, no matter what language style they use. However, the gender problem does not end
“The woman’s style is called ‘covert,’ a term suggesting negative qualities like being ‘sneaky’ and ‘underhanded’”(¶3). Take the example of a man saying, “give me a glass of water, please,” and a woman saying, “gee, I sure am thirsty and would like a glass of water.” In this sense, the man is seen as powerful for being direct, while the woman is perceived as sly or cunning for being indirect. Conversely, in other countries, men are graced with respect for their indirectness and women are stigmatized for their “crudeness” due to their direct style of language. “... In a Malagasy-speaking village on the island of Madagascar, it is women who are direct and men who are indirect… Villagers see the men’s indirect way of speaking… as the better way… They regard women’s direct style as clumsy and crude, debasing the beautiful subtlety of men’s language”(¶9, Tannen). This awful reality spells that women are generally interpreted as of low status, no matter what language style they use. However, the gender problem does not end