Anecdotal evidence suggests that this discomfort occurs when children are a gender minority as well. For example, one colleague reported that when her son was given a choice of making pancakes or building a birdhouse as a group activity, he said explicitly, I really want to make pancakes, but there are no other boys making pancakes, and I don't want to be the only boy.

[Y]ou've got a bright, intelligent face. I shouldn't wonder if you weren't rather clever. Why do you hide your light under a bushel?

Our burning-glass also now became a great treasure, as it enabled me to magnify, and so perceive more clearly […].

But if ever I hear at other hands of theſe matters hereafter, I ſhall ſurely be quack-breech, and think every Buſh a Boggle.