This is to the extent whereby the theorists have begun to look at lesbianism as a provisional identity in that it takes into account the racial, class and ethnical differences and these are what the queer theory has failed to do so far Epstein, 1994: 197() Some scholars have argued that the development of the queer theory means that lesbianism is not going to disappear anytime in the recent future.

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adults treat young people, including how they talk to them, is part of the gendering process wherein a sexual identity is formed. Indeed, Romaine (1999) notes that, "Boys and girls live in different worlds in which separate cultures are developed and transmitted, each with quite different patterns of verbal interaction" (p. 190). This paper examines some of the implications of differences in the ways adults speak to boys and