Also, imagine if you got smacked in the face for having a smart mouth, but only by your male parent.
For some reason the female parent never smacked you in the face for having a smart mouth. I wonder why that was?
The narrator of this story by S. Cokal doesn't seem to have gotten smacked in the face. She got to do lots of extra chores when she "talked back," I guess.
"Shooting Snakes" on JSTOR
I suppose some people tend to repeat what got role-modeled for them sometimes.
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