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If your claim is that gender differentiated behaviour in children is spontaneously observed due only to nature, why do you need to invent an example? You've nev
by teachingassist 5y ago
If your claim is that gender differentiated behaviour in children is spontaneously observed due only to nature, why do you need to invent an example? You've never seen a girl play with a stick like it's a baby, because that's not a thing that girls typically do (I doubt you can find a single example of this).
Girls treat the outdoors generally the same as boys do, and iirc are recorded climbing trees in the same numbers.
- souprock 5y agoHow about a chimpanzee? The young females have been observed to use sticks as dolls, playing with them like babies. The young males tend to use sticks as tools and weapons. IMHO, this ends the argument.
- teachingassist 5y agoThe article that I'm reading claims that boy chimps like to play with toy trucks: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/101220-chimpanzees-play-nature-nurture-science-animals-evolution https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/101220-chi... You're gonna therefore have to explain to me why you think this is natural behaviour. Since, as I understand, trucks were invented by humans. Isn't it just that chimpanzees are social and have been cued by human expectations, their captors and immediate relatives?
- cbnotfromthere 5y agoI have ABSOLUTELY seen many young girls (3-7 yo) playing with sticks or similar objects as if they are babies / dolls. In communist Romania of my youth, where toys were sparse. In Egypt nowadays, in poor families who can't pay for toys.