En boca cerrada no entran mosca.J. "Flies don't emer.a dosedmouth" is a saying I kept hearing when I wa.s a child. Serhabladora was to be a gossip and a liar., to talk too much. Mucha-chitas bien criadas, wen-bred girls don't answer bade Es una lattade respeto to talk back to one's mother or father. I remember oneof the sins I'd recite to the priest in the confession box the fewtimes I wem to confession: talking back to my mother, habtar pa''tr'as, repelar. Hocicona, repelona, chismosa, having a big momh,.questioning, carrying tales are aU signs of being mal cNada. In myculture they are all words that are derogatory if applied towomen-I've never heard them applied to men.
Back in my country there is this say "ese hombre si es mujercita" which means "that man is such a woman". This is used when a man likes to gossip or to talk to much. As if that is all a woman do. It always makes me mad because of the negative symbolism and how it's always used to talk down on women.