"boys and men may not understand the generic meaning of the masculine generic because they have never formally had to learn to understand.....Girls and women, on the other hand, have to learn formally to use the masculine generic. Barred from continuing to refer to "any person" with their own pronoun, they must believe in its inclusiveness, if they are to think of themselves and their sex as existing."
I really never gave this much thought. I guess we do learn at such a young age what is the appropriate pronoun to use when talking or describing a generic masculine. This is our norm though, this is the difference of language. Since we do live in this "man-orientated" world we (girls/women) know that we are the "outsiders" so to speak. I don't necessarily think that this is a good thing but it is "normal" in my world.
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