do boys have cooties?
How men objectify women in friendships and how that deepens the divide between the sexes.
When little girls are asked about their crushes or the male friends they have at school, it’s not uncommon for them to respond with revulsion. They might knit their eyebrows together and say with complete conviction, “boys have cooties!”
This reaction might seem over dramatic and silly but the foundation for it is something both six-year-old girls and 30…
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