It is really remarkable how handwriting is gendered. I have been grading some partial exams and it struck me how, sheet after sheet, I could guess if it was from a female or male student. It felt a bit like in Milorad Pavic’s novels, where objects, tastes, stories etc. always have female and male parts. Or like in Iran where the doors of the old houses used to have two different door-knocks, one female and one male. This enabled the lady of the house to know the gender of the visitor by the sound of the knocking, so that she knew if she had to cover her head with scarf or not. I was told that the male knock was always on the left side of the two doors.
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