Are Boys and Girls Really All That Different (Part II)

[Modern School]

Same Upbringing, Different Outcomes?

Kids in Gender Specific Costumes, by EpSos.de
Several friends have told me that boys and girls are inherently different from each other. Their evidence was that their own boys and girls came out so differently despite being raised in the same environment and in the same manner.


Even when the same parents raise two children in the “same” house and in the “same” manner, there are always slight differences in both. The furniture, decorations and toys change over time. Parents may be more stressed, confused, or overwhelmed early on, thus influencing how they interact with their first child. Grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, kids at daycare, television, videos, billboards, all broadcast gender images that babies start to pick up almost immediately.


My three-year old son recently explained to me that certain colors were for boys, and others were for girls, despite our best efforts to raise him in a gender neutral manner. Even if no one actually told him that certain colors were for girls or for boys, he certainly could have developed this hypothesis himself from observing people on television, at day care, and in the community. When I asked him what would happen if a child wore the wrong color, he very astutely answered that their feelings might get hurt.


Biological Gender Differences Are Actually Quite Small

Many people believe that girls and boys are innately or genetically different. They
accept the sociobiological assumption that biology or DNA is destiny, that traits as complex as gender could have an entirely (or primarily) genetic basis.


This simply is not true.


For more on this, please see http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2010/12/are-boys-and-girls-really-that.html

[pnwmom]

1. There was a doctor practicing sex-assignment surgeries a few decades

ago who made the argument that there were no differences; and that you could take a boy, surgically and hormonally change him, and successfully raise him as a girl. He was proven, tragically, to be wrong when one of his first subjects (a boy who had lost his penis in a botched circumcision) killed himself as a young adult. Despite having his testicles removed, being given hormone treatments, and being raised as a girl, he never felt happy in his assigned identity. As soon as he was an adult and found out about his situation, he began living as a male.

Ironically, the doctor had been holding up this young man's case (and other similar cases) as proof of his theory that there were no significant differences between the genders; and his research was accepted for decades.

[Confusious]

2. Bullshit

My daughter has the same mannerisms, likes and dislikes as me, though I have have lived thousands of miles away most of her life and never told her about them. DNA or ESP?

Trying to make things "gender neutral" is going to do more damage then letting things take their course.

[Odin2005]

3. This PC bullshit has been disproven for years.

The horrific tragedy mentioned in Post #1 is one of the things that shows how idiotic and dangerous the "there are no innate neurological differences between the sexes" ideology is.