ZanneMarie wrote:
Culture teaches them to believe that in a woman it is shyness, introversion, living a sheltered life, being old fashioned and being naive. They are taught not to view it as threatening, so they have a tendency, with me and some like me, to shelter and protect us because that's their perception of us.
I get this reaction from people, too. I guess it's preferable to the reception a guy might get, but it makes me wonder if I act younger than I am or something. A library employee recently referred to me as a "young girl" (I'm 22!).