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Towanda could possibly be one of the ladies despised by Mia’s mother. Or higher, it is produced: girls have been educated, particularly after childhood, to have their our bodies aligned with normative femininity, completely to complement another subject, matched with normative masculinity. The behavior of Mia’s mom permits us to speculate two elements of corrective schooling: first, ladies are educated in very subtle (Lamas, 2015Lamas, M. (2015). ¿Mujeres juntas?: reflexiones sobre las relaciones conflictivas entre compañeras y los retos para alcanzar acuerdos políticos. I cried because, during the week I went to my mother’s mother and, on the weekend, to my father’s mom. When Mia explains that her mother didn't should say anything immediately for her to be taught that it was grotesque to be a "dyke", "fat", "big", "masculine", we will relate with the discussions held by Lamas (2015)Lamas, M. (2015). ¿Mujeres juntas?: reflexiones sobre las relaciones conflictivas entre compañeras y los retos para alcanzar acuerdos políticos. Mia remembers that at the end of her childhood, between 10 and 12 years previous, she began to be incentivized by her mom to vary her clothes and to begin dressing extra appropriately following what her mom understood as frequent to a pre-teen: a mild lipstick, clear nail polish, and so on. Though she was not overweight she was taken by her dad and mom to an endocrinologist and stimulated to drop pounds: "I simply thought: I have to weight loss plan and I'll lose weight".