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Here are some highlights from that most noteworthy article.

"...But decades of research in neuroscience, endocrinology, genetics, and developmental psychology, strongly suggest that masculine traits are hard-wired..."

"...Males have better spatial reasoning skills, females better verbal skills. Males are greater risk-takers, females are more nurturing. Boys like action, competitive rough-housing, and inanimate objects, and they are the one group of Americans who do not spend a lot of time talking about their feelings..."

"...Try as they may, parents, teachers, and gender facilitators have not been successful in rooting out male behavior they regard as harmful..."

"...scientists are beginning to pinpoint the precise biological correlates to many typical gender differences..."

"...children?s play preferences are, in large part, hormonally determined..."

"...Even with counter-conditioning, boys and girls gravitate toward very different toys..."

"...The entire anthropological record offers not a single example of a society where females have better spatial reasoning skills and males better verbal skills, where females are fixated on objects and men on feelings, or where males are physically docile and females aggressive..."

"...In the face of what we know, it is altogether unreasonable to deny the biological basis for distinctive male and female preferences and abilities..."

?..biology is not destiny, but it is good statistical probability...?

"...There is still room for equity. A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness..."

"...The natural differences between men and women suggest there will never be mathematical parity in all fields..."

"...Boys will prefer bonfires to diaries and any teacher who requires them to contribute squares to a quilt should brace herself for insensitive images of monsters, dangerous animals, and weaponry..."

"...The male tendency to be competitive, risk-loving, more narrowly focused, and less concerned with feelings has consequences in the real world. It could explain why there are more males at the extremes of success and failure: more male CEOs, more males in maximum security prisons..."

"...Of course, boys? natural masculinity must be tempered. ... ...All societies confront the problem of civilizing their children, particularly the male ones...."

"... History teaches that masculinity constrained by morality is powerful and constructive; it also teaches that masculinity without ethics is dangerous and destructive..."

"...We have a set of proven social practices for raising young men..."

"...The traditional approach is through character education to develop a young man?s sense of honor and help him become a considerate, conscientious human being. Sociologists make an important distinction between pathological and healthy masculinity..."

"...Boys who exhibit aberrational masculinity define their manhood through anti-social and destructive acts; instead of protecting the vulnerable, they exploit them..."

"... Healthy masculinity is the opposite. Males who possess it?the vast majority of American boys and men?strive to be helpful and to achieve. They sublimate their natural aggression into sports, hobbies, and work. They build rather than destroy. And they do not exploit women and children, they protect them..."

"...Efforts to civilize boys with honor codes, character education, manners, and rules of good sportsmanship are necessary and effective, and fully consistent with their masculine natures..."

"...Efforts to feminize them with dolls, quilts, non-competitive games, girl-centered books, and feelings exercises will fail; though they will succeed in making millions of boys quite unhappy..."

"...Dissident feminist Camille Paglia is one of the few scholars who values maleness: ?Masculinity is aggressive, unstable, combustible. It is also the most creative cultural force in history. When I cross?any of America?s great bridges, I think?men have done this. Construction is a sublime male poetry...?

"...This sublime poetry has been unappreciated in American society for more than a quarter of a century...."

"...The awesome display of masculine courage shown by the firefighters and policemen at Ground Zero, the heroic soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the focused determination and exemplary leadership of President Bush,Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks, have rekindled in Americans an appreciation for masculine virtues. Many courageous and even heroic women took part in all these endeavors. But fighting enemies and protecting the nation are overwhelmingly male projects..."

"...The gender activists who fill our schools and government agencies will continue with their efforts to make boys more docile and emotional. But fewer and fewer Americans will support them...."

"...Maleness is back in fashion. And one reason is that Americans are increasingly aware that traditional male traits such as aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking and stoicism?constrained by virtues of valor, honor and self-sacrifice?are essential to the well-being and safety of our society..."