It contends that the observable differences between boys and girls has been the product of generations of differential upbringing. Developmental psychologists have found that, across cultures, boys and girls are significantly different in what interests them and in how they engage with their environment. The emerging discoveries from Brain Science have found that the male and female brains are organically different, proving that there is a physical basis for the cognitive differences between men and women. Men and women do think differently.
It is a human triumph and is rooted in our evolutionary success story. Our education system should be teaching and celebrating that difference instead of engaging in social engineering, which further alienates boys by seeking to re-construct their natural maleness.It is a truly pernicious experiment which is an attempt to indoctrinate a generation of young men with feminist propaganda and to inflict a collective guilt trip on them.
The core idea of this programme, i.e. that gender is socially constructed, is a central tenet of the entire feminist belief system.
How very right you are. I know a woman (a “doctor” of “women’s issues,” if you can believe it) and this is one of her dozens of goofy mantras.
She honestly believes that boys should play with dolls, and that their “supposed preference” for “cops and robbers” or “cowboys and indians” is entirely socially-driven.
The good news is she gave birth to a girl, and does not plan on having any more children. When she was pregnant, myself and others who know her, were praying that she would have a girl. Though she’ll undoubtedly screw her daughter’s head up royally, the damage she would have inflicted on a son would have been monumentally worse.
(PS - where in Ireland? My brother-in-law is from Tipperary. I spent four days there and a week in Dingle a few years back. Dingle may be my most favorite city in the world, after NYC. The music and the food were heavenly.)