Monday, February 7, 2011

Keep it clean.

So this isn't about girls in the developing world, but I think it makes some interesting points about how cultural attitudes about gender can lead to physical differences between genders. It seems relevant to what we've been talking about, and I think that this is an important consideration and way to approach the things we see manifest in our societies. We have to be cautious to trace these differences back to their true origins.


Why Keeping Little Girls Squeaky Clean Could Make Them Sick

Not all young girls avoid dirt. Hannah Rose Akerley, 7, plays in a gigantic lake of mud at the annual Mud Day event in Westland, Mich., last July.

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