Yeah, we treat girls and boys drastically differently from birth, mostly without noticing, and then people say it must be hardcoded that they act so differently

Yeah, we treat girls and boys drastically differently from birth, mostly without noticing, and then people say it must be hardcoded that they act so differently. It's a puzzler to me. I hated being forced to wear dresses when I was little, too. They were scratchy uncomfortable and it made it hard to run around and play because I had to worry about whether people could see my underwear. I had to sit in a ladylike way with my legs closed, for the same reason. So given that I was regularly forced to wear a dress, which also forced me to sit a certain way, involve myself less in active play, get used to wearing uncomfortable things because they looked nice, how can anyone think that the fact I lean more towards these feminine habits now, compared to someone who was not forced to do these things, is a natural outgrowth from my biology? To me that seems to have been pretty obviously trained into me. Even in cases where I wasn't explicitly forced to adopt feminine habits by my parents, there is a lot of lateral socialization that goes on between kids, who have also received gendered messages from parents, media, society and other kids. Boys often didn't want to let girls play the boy games with them, so if you wanted to make friends as a girl, you had better be up for playing the girl games. https://books.google.ca/books?id=bEycBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT161&lpg=PT161&dq=girls+more+delicate&source=bl&ots=6PRdOSIuRY&sig=rv6Xw0PLM_DJsKgJjo5R4logMWU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi25Yj9r7TWAhVE02MKHZQyBWgQ6AEINzAD https://books.google.ca/books?id=bEycBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT161&lpg=P...