Background: Informant is a Mexican-American mother of 3. Her knowledge of this gender prediction comes from her mother. Main Piece: Informant: When I was pregnant with my second child, everyone told me I was having another boy. They said my stomach was “carrying low”, which is an indicator of a boy. My mom really believed… Continue Reading »
Text INFORMANT: My dad use to always tell me that if you could kiss your elbow it would turn you into the opposite gender. Background The informant actually believed this myth to be true when he was little. He originally learned it from his dad but heard it again from his classmates.He found the… Continue Reading »
“I have some… some things about my culture and my village, and umm… we were a 9 girls at home. So… sex was umm… nobody can talk about sex. And then, uhh… My mom… how mothers protect their daughters, not to be pregnant and not to be with boys before marriage, she always said to… Continue Reading »
“She was only the Dean of Men’s Daughter, With an IQ of twenty-three, But the things that we college boys taught her Could’ve earned her some sort of degree.” Where’d you get that song? University of Maryland! So you learned that in college. Yeah. 1965. Who’d you learn it from?… Continue Reading »
Well Dan and Mary Smith told me that. He said “What’s the tenth girl?” And I said “I don’t know, what’s the tenth girl?” And he said “Nine out of ten girls are pretty, and the tenth one goes to Michigan.” I guess the girls in Michigan are pretty plain! But, Michigan was a hard… Continue Reading »