Which always leads me to query, taught by whom? Teachers, other girls, my grandparents, the media, just about everyone other than my parents.
I had an entirely mixed-sex education which I was very grateful for, as 99% of the bullying I experienced was from girls, and all but one of my friends were boys. There was a unisex school not far from my home (separate male and female campuses for ages 11-16, then two years on a mixed campus) but the girls there didn't seem any nerdier than other girls, so I didn't feel I was missing out on a secret cache of nerd girls. Then I got online and nerd girls were EVERYWHERE! It was awesome, and something that I never got at school.
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
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Date: 2014-01-20 03:58 am (UTC)Teachers, other girls, my grandparents, the media, just about everyone other than my parents.
I had an entirely mixed-sex education which I was very grateful for, as 99% of the bullying I experienced was from girls, and all but one of my friends were boys. There was a unisex school not far from my home (separate male and female campuses for ages 11-16, then two years on a mixed campus) but the girls there didn't seem any nerdier than other girls, so I didn't feel I was missing out on a secret cache of nerd girls. Then I got online and nerd girls were EVERYWHERE! It was awesome, and something that I never got at school.