Last week while in my office, I began working on a video project to use for recruitment purposes and I was having difficulty getting the clips to import into iMovie. There happened to be a student working in the mail room (which is located next to my office). I figured he would be more tech savvy than I, so I ask, "Hey, can you do me a favor? I need help with my computer..." His response? He showed me this video:
As much as I didn't want to admit it, a few of those phrases come out of my mouth on a daily basis. I guess I just fit into the gender norms on this one. As do, according to this, many other American women. How do we as a collective pick up these sayings? Is this from the media? I know I typically ask... "can you do me a favor?" as a nice way of prefacing something rather than using a command statement. Yet, this clip makes a good point - we've been gendered to speak in a particular way and reflecting upon it, I'm not sure if I'm proud or embarrassed that sometimes I speak in this fashion. Regardless, this clip does a decent job encompassing the things girls say... because I know I'm not the only one who uses these phrases, it was through observations of a number of women that this video had to be created in the first place.
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