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Gender Crisis - On the boys side
Now girls care about strong and weak, they care a lot about strong and weak, but they also care about nice/not nice and close/far away. Working in co-ed schools, I see that girls are able to operate on more dimensions. Boys feel required to express only a narrow band of what they truly feel." Michael Thompson Is this acknowledgment that boys are in fact different?
"And this is true in every culture on earth. And needless to say, boys engage in violence more than girls, and men more than women. When I started asking myself why men are so much more violent than women, it struck me that from the time they are little kids, boys are taught that the worst thing to be is a sissy or a coward or a mama's boy. If we are ever going to raise a generation of males who grow into less violent men, then it seems to me we have to start challenging some of these stereotypes about masculinity." Jim Gilligan Do we have to do for boys what we did for girls? Break down the myths.
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