This year, a bunch of girls have gotten concussions in my class. The boys assume that we’re just making a big deal about it, and that we’re all wimps. Then one day, a boy got a concussion. He was crying as much as any of the girls did, and no one called him a wimp. One girl even got a serious concussion, and was having migraines, but one boy simply dismissed this, and claimed that he’d had worse. Mind you, the girl was at quite an early age to be receiving migrains. So, it seems that if a girl gets seriously hurt, their a wimp, but if it’s a boy, it’s totally normal. This makes me feel insulted, and kind of afraid that if I get injured, people will assume I’m overreacting, or I’m skipping out. The boys also don’t care about the girls safety, so they are pretty careIess around us. I wish this would all change.
