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“Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men, here we have one that we know is gender-specific to women,” says Silber Anyone have more deta
by paggle 7y ago
“Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men, here we have one that we know is gender-specific to women,” says Silber
Anyone have more detail about these thousands of gender specific male scripts? Never heard of this.
- twic 7y agoI don't know of any gender-specific scripts, but i've read about secret languages that are taught as part of a boy's initiation into adulthood in, i think some Pacific island cultures. I can't find a reference to any of them, though - just too secret, i suppose. I did find this, a secret language spoken by traditional healers in the Andes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallawaya_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallawaya_language
- snorkasaurus 7y agoI took it as a snarky swipe at "the patriarchy".