Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: nostalgic

Gendered Classrooms

 This was me.  I did this damn near every time someone tried to line us up by gender.  If I wasn't doing that, I was standing with the boys.  It drove many teachers so batshit that they quit doing gender lines rather than argue with me.
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  • 3 comments
rhodielady_47

rhodielady_47

February 19 2019, 09:24:06 UTC 2 years ago

I always hated my classes getting sorted out by gender.
The reason why I hated it like poison was because the boys always got singled out for really good stuff that I would have enjoyed being a part of.
I begged to be allowed to take shop classes but nothing doing--finally the school counselor told me that the shop classes were where they kept the unruly boys rather than allow them to ruin the subject classes for everyone else.
(POUT)
:^\
fayanora

fayanora

February 23 2019, 03:01:57 UTC 2 years ago

LOL cool.

I can totally see my character Vedya Ravenstone doing that. She hasn't admitted it yet, even to herself, and I don't know if she ever will, but I'm pretty sure she's gender fluid.
fayanora

fayanora

February 23 2019, 03:03:10 UTC 2 years ago

As to myself, I hated lining up by gender because all my bullies were boys and all my friends were girls.