Curiosity has a way of making obedience conditional. A girl who is encouraged to ask questions about the world may eventually ask questions about the rules governing her own life: Who made them? Why do they exist? Who benefits from them? What happens if I disagree?<\/p>\n
For those conservatives more invested in a more hierarchical vision of gender<\/a>, that kind of independent judgment presents an obvious problem. Submission works best when it feels inevitable, when the boundaries of a woman\u2019s life are presented not as choices someone made for her, but simply as the natural order of things.<\/p>\n Read more at Salon <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curiosity has a way of making obedience conditional. A girl who is encouraged to ask questions about the world may eventually ask questions about the rules governing her own life: Who made them? Why do they exist? Who benefits from them? What happens if I disagree? For those conservatives more invested in a more hierarchical … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[839,838,840],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-curiosity","tag-girl-scouts","tag-giving-girls-a-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}