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"Boy?" - six months of observations on gendering of language to infants
   

For six months now, I've been watching to see if people treat Sparrow differently based on whether they think she's a boy or a girl. I have an ideal test-space. Sparrow is a not-obviously-gendered name, and while it sounds a little more girly than masculine there's been a celebrity baby boy given that name in the last couple of months. She has long dark eyelashes and big blue eyes which makes a lot of people think "girl", but wears a lot of blue and "boy" clothes because her first clothes were all... read more

Published : 2 months, 2 weeks ago (Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:31:26 PST)
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