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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"A daughter once born is a daughter for life. A son is a son until he takes a wife."

--old proverb[/quote]

What ignorant, misogynistic crap![/quote]

Every cliched proverb has a grain of truth.

The gender gap is real.

Biological and social Gender differences are both real.

The question is how to reduce the inordinate burden on women to provide unpaid family care? [/quote]

(PSST…part of the way forward to reduce the burden on women to provide unpaid family care is to stop yammering old proverbs and getting those notions into people’s heads.)[/quote]

I doubt that policing language and guilting people for expressing cultural realities will solve the problem … 
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You can express cultural realities without resorting to nursery rhymes that, when repeated, become truths in some (vapid/looking-for-an-excuse) people’s heads. One would hope.[/quote]

PP clearly indicated it was an old proverb … Good luck spraying trite PC air freshener over the manure fields [/quote]

Shall we start repeating “old proverbs” about members of minority groups, or would that be harmful and negative and unseemly? You tell me. After all, it’s just an “old proverb,” right? What harm in repeating it and teaching it to more and more people, thus informing their thinking?[/quote]

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