> It seems boys can, they simply don't Society and entourage treats a boy doing this far worse than it would a girl doing it. I can only imagine the kind of bu

> It seems boys can, they simply don't Society and entourage treats a boy doing this far worse than it would a girl doing it. I can only imagine the kind of bullying I would have opened myself up to by doing this in my childhood (say at 10+ years old). I remember some of my friends being laughed at by their own parents for playing "girlish" games. Bullies were far less forgiving. It's a good case study to understand why many women avoid certain fields not because they're not up to it but because society "guides" them another way.