On the positive side, this quote: “I hate it when girls dumb themselves down,” Gabe Gladstone, the co-captain of mock trial, was saying one morning to the other captain, Cameron Ferrey. was encouraging, although it's difficult for me to say if that's what most boys of that age actually believe or merely what they know they are supposed to say.
OTOH, dear gods, the descriptions I've read here and elsewhere are even worse than the pressures on people are my high school, which was quite similar, but also almost 28 years ago. From this and several other articles I've read the pressure is significantly higher on young women than young men. In a word, ugh.
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Date: 2007-04-01 07:19 am (UTC)OTOH, dear gods, the descriptions I've read here and elsewhere are even worse than the pressures on people are my high school, which was quite similar, but also almost 28 years ago. From this and several other articles I've read the pressure is significantly higher on young women than young men. In a word, ugh.