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I got a better idea, how about you don't go around performing sociological experiments on your kids. Boys and girls are exposed to different doses of hormones,

I got a better idea, how about you don't go around performing sociological experiments on your kids. Boys and girls are exposed to different doses of hormones, those are essential to forming their personality, and, therefore, their needs are going to be distinct, and their differences are only going to become stronger the older they get. Two generations more of this constant hammering on boys and people will have to start writing "Talking ot Boys Like They're Not Inherently Evil" to begin work on fixing the damage.

mnsc 9y ago
No matter how you behave with your kids you are performing a "sociological experiment" with them. There are no answers in child upbringing! Just treating boys like boys and girls like girls is not a guarantee that their needs will be met, you need to actually deal with your kid without staring blindly on their gender and then sort them in the corresponding bucket. It's hard yes, but no-one said having kids is easy.
Faark 9y ago
Thing is by changing just a few words I could make your comment into sth someone might have said about blacks just a few centuries ago. These days we think differently (well, most of us). To better ourselves, we have to overcome those preconceived notions. That is only possible with what you call "sociological experiments" and will also likely involve some initial overcompensation. Still, challenging whether females biology actually predetermines their purpose in life to daycare and kitchen seems to me like a goal worth exploring. I wonder how we'll think about the differences between personalities in maybe 20 or 30 years, once we actually understand how the brain works and develops. So far and as far as I understand a wide range of experiences seems necessary to form a worthy personality. Having strong gender rolls and other preconceived notions can limit what kind of lessons are learned.

mnsc 9y ago

No matter how you behave with your kids you are performing a "sociological experiment" with them. There are no answers in child upbringing! Just treating boys like boys and girls like girls is not a guarantee that their needs will be met, you need to actually deal with your kid without staring blindly on their gender and then sort them in the corresponding bucket. It's hard yes, but no-one said having kids is easy.

Faark 9y ago

Thing is by changing just a few words I could make your comment into sth someone might have said about blacks just a few centuries ago. These days we think differently (well, most of us). To better ourselves, we have to overcome those preconceived notions. That is only possible with what you call "sociological experiments" and will also likely involve some initial overcompensation. Still, challenging whether females biology actually predetermines their purpose in life to daycare and kitchen seems to me like a goal worth exploring. I wonder how we'll think about the differences between personalities in maybe 20 or 30 years, once we actually understand how the brain works and develops. So far and as far as I understand a wide range of experiences seems necessary to form a worthy personality. Having strong gender rolls and other preconceived notions can limit what kind of lessons are learned.