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There’s a great book called In a Different Voice by feminist psychologist Carol Gilligan which explains why girls are taught to speak in a fluffy, roundabout way, hedging, backpedalling, apologising, soothing, not being definitive or assertive — it’s a way of signalling “I’m not sure what to think — what do you think?” And designed to keep us inferior.

Boys are taught the converse.

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