Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Finding Your Inner or Outer Voice

Are We Binding Our Girls’ Mouths?

In my daughter’s 5th grade class there are three times as many girls with braces on their teeth than there are boys. Though boys are more likely to get braces these days then they were when I was growing up, the majority of brace-wearers are still girls.

Is this a coincidence? I doubt it…

It seems that right when girls start moving toward puberty, when their bodies start budding and expanding, when they start coming into their own identity as young females — is when their mouths are being bound by metal.

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