The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
Dale SpenderThis monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
Dale Spendermen have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
Dale SpenderMen who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
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