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- IDENTITY
R: Okay, so I think when you're at school, I came in straight through so whole my life has been, all my life experience has been through school (the respondent is 19 and still studying). So, I think when you're a girl at school it is very hard - I found it very hard to fit in.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: (…) I like being a woman. But I consider that Portuguese society is not well prepared to support working moms. I work many hours, too many, for the support I consider that I need to give to my 3 children at home.
- IDENTITY
I: So, do you see that masculinity is changing? Or that there is a debate, somehow, going on? R: I think so, I think it is not quite the right debate, but I think the emergence of these kinds of, these different kinds of masculinities, such as the 'metrosexual'. I: Metro???
- IDENTITY
R: Okay, so I think when you're at school, I came in straight through so whole my life has been, all my life experience has been through school (the respondent is 19 and still studying). So, I think when you're a girl at school it is very hard - I found it very hard to fit in.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: So, yeah, I grew up in this house with my mother and my sister and my older brother. My father, my mother and father are divorced. My father lives about 2 streets down there, my mother and father would cross the road to avoid each other.
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: I had two marriages, and both of my wives died from cancer. The first one died from breast cancer, the second one - from spine cancer. But I am happy with the people around me now, the kids and so on. This is a matter of destiny.<br />(…)
- VIOLENCE
“What comes to mind is that different types of people start bothering you in the streets with different types of intensity. That happened quite a lot when I was younger, was that there were these stupid sexualized remarks, but also other types of remarks. but I must say..
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
R: (...) So, that would be my father and that obviously is my childhood so that came with me for a while. But then I met my husband who I'm still married to for 23 years and it is completely different. I: In what way is it different?
- CHILDHOOD / FAMILY LIFE / RELATIONSHIPS
Woman, 52, Belgian<br />My parents were quite progressive. I mean, I had older parents. That means my parents were 39 when I was born. My mother was almost 40 when I was born. That meant that I always had the oldest parents of the class.
- LEISURE
R: […] I had a teacher, who actually did not really tolerate girls. And because of this, frankly speaking he was somehow rather indulgent towards all of them; and he preferred guys since it was civil defense training.
- IDENTITY
R: Another thing that I always found relevant was that in love affairs being a man and being interested or trying to get in touch with a girl or to become his friend, being a boy is usually an automatic by word for “trying on it with somebody” or 'He is trying on it with me', and in spite