Are Girls More Clever than Boys? - Page 2
If everyone is saying this, surely teachers are, too, and they must believe it. Boys are bad at reading, can't stay still, can't pay attention, can't do much really except destroy everything, as far as I have been told. Maybe I will find this out for myself, but if so, where did all those [male] poets and writers come from? They seemed to read a bit.
I have been surrounded by a sea of blue ever since the baby was born. He imbibes the messages of "boyness" in his sleep. He doesn't stand a chance against this onslaught, I think.
Meanwhile, I have one daughter who had problems at school because she likes football. The other two have caught the girl bug and are heavily into pink and dressing up - how could they not be when children shops are so divided into pink and blue since segregation seems to sell more? Why sell one scooter when you can brand it in pink and blue and get twice your money from it?
It's not that I don't believe there is some genetic component in gender, but we seem to want to exaggerate this so much, and in my experience women are doing it more than men when they surely know what it results in.
What will be next?
We have long had girls' and boys' schools, but will we develop a boy system of education, which encourages leadership and decision-making, and a girl one which emphasizes "girl" skills like communication and nurturing? What will be the result?
Girls will once again become an alien species for boys and vice versa and what kind of future will that bring? More domestic violence, more communication problems, more pay inequality and more misery. Is that really what we want for our children?
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