We read Elaine Richardson's piece "My Ill Literacy Narrative: Growing up Black, Po and A Girl in the Hood." for homework. In these stories Elaine explains through her own life experience that there is not just one side or contex to words or events. She explains that her brother calling a girl pretty right infront of her meant that he was calling her ugly, and when he said you cant be the man she took it as boys were dominant over girls. I think we have all had expirence like that being on both sides, telling your mom you want pizza for dinner she takes it as shes not good at cooking. Boys will think them hitting on you is nice but a girl will take it as mean or degrating and the boy only got that he was hitting on her. I have had many of these moments where words can have double meanings, in each instints it was because of a lack of expirence by one person or another. Each person has different expirence and thats why words have different meanings to every person.