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...always suspected that "feminists" like Chodorow and Tannen were the pretty, well-made-up girls in the schoolyard who always made fun of the tomboys. Plus, their arguments limit women, and inform stereotypes. Women always seem to end up playing the "soft" games...
Some argue that women can't play a sport like baseball--at least at the same level as men. Women are different, the objection goes, not as strong or athletically gifted as men. Much feminist theory supports this objection. Nancy Chodorow and others argue that girls and boys develop differently and assume different attributes; girls are nurturing and understanding, while boys are aggressive--the primary quality necessary for sports. Deborah Tannen argues similarly that women and men use different languages...
...they're betting women, Chodorow and Tannen probably have bets down already against the Silver Bullets. But I suspect that the Bullets may take a few games in their exhibition series...
...cultural theorists Sunder cites in her thesis lend some insight. Nancy Chodorow asserts that girls form their gender identities by assuming maternal traits such as caring, nurturing and connectedness, while boys separate from their mothers and reject those same traits...
Carol Gilligan builds on Chodorow's theory, asserting that women and men use different languages--different voices--to speak about moral conflicts. And Rosabeth Moss Kanter says that in corporate leadership culture, traits associated with men are rewarded and perpetuated...