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[–]Penultimate_Penance 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah it's nuts. I grew up religious, so I felt very strongly about sexism from a very young age since it was blatant in my little subset of American culture. Curious did you grow up with less blatant sexism in your local community?

[–]worried19[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was there, just less blatant. Like my grandparents' evangelical church didn't allow women to be pastors, but I wasn't even aware of that until I was in my late teens. It wasn't on my radar. Somehow that never came up in Sunday school or VBS or Bible camp when I was a kid.

I feel like I missed a lot of female socialization because by the age of 5, I was pretty much "living as" and passing as a boy. I spent all my time with boys, played on their sports' teams, and didn't socialize with girls at all. I knew I was a girl, but I didn't think of myself as a "real" one. When I got into high school I did realize that a lot of heterosexual dating seemed sexist, and I wanted no part of that, but otherwise, it didn't appear to me like there was overt sexism. However, since I wasn't talking to women or girls much, I'm sure I overlooked a lot.