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Rather than saying that little boys and little girls, from the very start, learn two different ways of speaking, I think that the process is more complicated. Since the mother and other women are dominant influences in the lives of most children under the age of 5, probably both boys and girls first learn 'women's language' as their first language. As they grow older, boys especially go through a stage of rough talk; this is probably discouraged in little girls more strongly than in little boys, in whom parents may often find it more amusing than shocking. By the time children are 10 or so, and split up into same-sex peer groups, the two languages are already present, according to my recollection and observations. But it seems that what has happened is that boys have unlearned their original form of expression and adopted new forms of expression, while the girls retain their old ways of speech. The ultimate result is the same, of course, whatever the interpretation.

    So a girl is damned if she does, damned if she doesn't. If she refuses to talk like a lady, she is ridiculed and subjected to criticism as unfeminine; if she does learn, she is ridiculed as unable to think clearly, unable to take part in a serious discussion : in some sense, as less than fully human. These two choices which a woman has-to be less than a woman or less than a person - are highly painful.