The Bias We Pretend Doesn’t Hurt Boys (part 1)
How a Culture Built to Protect Girls Leaves Boys Unseen and Unheard
Every now and then, a simple classroom exercise reveals something profound about human nature. Jane Elliott’s famous “blue-eyes/brown-eyes” experiment did exactly that. Many of you will remember it: the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Elliott, a third-grade teacher in Iowa, decided her students needed to understand prejudice in a way …