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SMNTY Classics: Do doctors listen to women?

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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If You Will, I Defy Grammar Girl

This is fom mary ellen. She has a se and linguistics, and is writing in response to grammar girl. And she took some issue some of the things she writes when answering the question about whether men or women pay more attention to grammar. Grammar girl mentions that older women tend to be bigger sticklers for grammar because all the teachers waigh back when were women. While this might be true, it's only part of the story. At least in western culture, language has been a vehicle of upward mo ity for women. Think, my fair lady, if women speak properly, they can have white collard jobs such as teachers and secretaries,. On the other hand

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