Every few months, it seems like I come across another article informing readers that the reason we have a wage gap is because women can’t negotiate. These articles inform me that men have no compunction about pushing for what they’re worth and they usually get it, while women languish in the low-salaried trenches, unable to […]
Tag: social conditioning
Internalisation and Identities
There’s an old joke that gets told around these parts about a neighbouring town. The idea behind the joke is to belittle, to establish a mythology, to underscore the peculiarity and the oddness and the strangeness of the town. To make it clear to people that those who live there are alien. Other. Strange. Don’t […]
Why, Thank You! You’re Too Kind
I’ve been mulling over Plumcake’s post about accepting compliments since she wrote it way back in April. One of the things about being read as a woman is that I internalise a lot of behaviours that society expects of women. This includes some things I really don’t like, one of which is constantly denigrating myself […]