Just a Girl by Tammie Adele

  Question, tell me how you feel about this Try to control me, boy, you get dismissed Pay my own fun, oh, and I pay my own bills Always 50-50 in relationships     Two of the most touted words of twenty-teens Australia would have to be ‘misogyny’ – thank you Julia Gillard for that speech towards Tony Abbott – and ‘mansplaining’.             Lets look at misogyny first. It’s the noun for people that have a dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women. It’s sad that society has felt the need to come up with a word like this. However, don’t think that this is a biased situation as the English language also has the complementary word ‘misandry’ for those that feel similarly about males.             Then there’s mansplaining. This one’s more fun than misogyny as it’s the noun for the explanation of something by a man, typically to a woman, i...

  You know you're only known 'Cause of your sex chromosome I know it's so messed up how our society all thinks (for sure) Life is short, you're capable (uh huh)   As an adult and therefore wiser - though only moderately so - to why things are different for the sexes, I often ponder the memory of my mum telling Tarnya and I that ‘It’s different for boys’ (refer to Post 4 ). At the bare basic chromosome level Y is the sex-determining chromosome in many species. It is the presence or absence of Y that determines male or female sex. The X chromosome is the other sex-determining chromosome in many animal species, including mammals, and is found in both males and females. The X chromosome was named for its unique properties by early researchers, which resulted in the naming of its counterpart Y chromosome, for the next letter in the alphabet, as it was discovered after the X chromosome. So, if we all have a X chromosome does this mean that we are all female (...