How has gender shaped your experiences as a knower, particularly in the use of language.
For the most part I do not feel that my gender has played a huge role in my experience as a knower, especially since I do not try and let it shape my experiences as a knower. I feel that the biggest part that my gender has affected my as a knower with language is just from phrases that I use that if I was a boy I would not use. For example I will call my friends, "girl" and I know I have a bad habit of saying "oh my god," a lot. I feel that this is highly influenced by the fact that I am a girl, and that these are phrases that mainly girls use. Another big difference is that I try my best to avoid slag, to the point where if someone uses slag most of the time I have no idea what they are talking about. I feel this is influences by not only the way I was brought up, but because I am a girl. I feel like boys are more prone to use slag and short hand things, such as the use of 'ur' instead of 'your.' Every time I am in a situation where slag is used, and I do not understand it, it when I am talking to a guy. I also feel that the way in which girls communicate with each other is very different than when guys talk to each other, or a girl and guy talk to each other. When girls talk to each other it is always very positive and polite, especially if you are not close with the other person, which I believe is very different than when guys talk to each others. Girls also always manage to find a common interest between them, and it usually is a mutual disliking about somethings. I feel that this is very unique to girls, and this changes ourselves as a knower, because the way in which we act and the things in which we experience make us know what we know and act how we act.
