I was talking to my friend Valerio about the Chinese attributing very fixed/rigid traits (and roles) on the basis of gender.
The example I cited him was that of a comment made (in the late 1980s) by a mainland Chinese colleague at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) about the grubby state of my computer keyboard, in Chinese: “This doesn’t look like a computer used by a girl.”
(London, 1988)
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