Being a woman helps one understand discrimination
Brown describes a strategy she uses to try to tamp down homophobia among the boys at her school.
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Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Brown, June 17, 2005. Interview U-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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But the
prejudice, I could relate some of the prejudice and the, not overtly
prejudice because then at least, I'd tell the boys. I'd say if you were
prejudice against females, you are most likely going to marry a female.
They said oh, because they're all homophobic guys. I said, there's a
fifty-fifty chance that you're going to have a girl in your family.
Sometimes the ones that are really macho I'd say please God. Give them
five girls and no boys. I'm already praying for them to have all girls
for meanness sake. Don't give them-. So they and I said, you'd
better get over it and I'd relate that. If you're prejudice against the
huge part of the population, you might as well grow out of this. You're
going to have, always have to deal with a person on this either as your
customers or your bosses or your coworkers, and so you just got to get
over it if you are. So I'd try to relate that to
being, growing up female in that respect.