Why are American boys so aggressive? (compared to French boys)

Asheville Magazine ^ | current | unknows

[Rebelbase]

I'm heading to lunch, I do want to read your comments later. There are some Clinton Comments toward the end of the postscript.

FYI, this is an online magazine "Serving the Holistic, Conscious Community of Asheville, North Carolina"

[wideawake]

Anthropologists have long known that cultures that shower physical affection on young children have little adult violence, dating back to Margaret Mead's studies in New Guinea.

Except that Margie made it all up.

[chance33_98]

French Boys:

[martin_fierro]

Meet the author.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Let's see, in America we have boys, and then we have girls.
In France they have girls, and Nancyboys.

[Frank_Discussion]

Just on a quick scan of the thing, it seems to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read. High BS quotient.

[Braak]

This explains why German boys kick the arses of French boys, and why American and British boys have to save the French boys (and steal the French girls).

[Frank_Discussion]

ROFLOL!!

[BlueLancer]

Piffle ... mush and bilgewater ...

I grew up waaaaayyyy before the time of those things that have been listed (except for the circumcision-part of the argument, although I find it hard to believe that that played any part in making me as "violent" as I am) and it's all bushwah.

We played our own version of combat kickball, no-rules football, armageddon dodgeball, cowboys-and-indians, GIs-and-Nazis, and, when I couldn't find anyone else to play with, I had my green plastic soldiers available to massacre any of the other small toys that I wanted to put up against them.

Then I joined the Navy and the Army when I grew up.

Sounds like the perfect ending for a perfect boyhood.

[Hot Tabasco]

Why are American boys so aggressive?

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this question first asked in Lexington a few years back?

[BlueLancer]

Other French boys ...

[ArrogantBustard]

Except that Margie made it all up.

I literally stopped reading at that sentence. Anything based on her "research" is unreliable.

[Porterville]

Males in America more aggresive?? That makes me so mad that I could kick the writer in the shin.

[cruiserman]

Cesarean birth rates are a general indicator for the presence of other highly traumatic and invasive procedures which work a damage upon the maternal-infant bond, even when a laboring mother does not have a Cesarean.

I would think being squeezed through the birth canal is much more traumatic than a Cesarean birth.

[Porterville]

The question is why are French boys so girly.

[JeeperFreeper]

Article and research needs enema. Will then be non- existent.
American girls can kick Frenchmens'(oxymoron) a**.
The real question the article should ask is why French boys are such gutless wonders.

[ewing]

Close, but I think he may be German..

[stevio]

Huh. We shower affection on our very physical 3yr boy, who out of the blue, just announced to my wife that he "really likes" (play) fighting with his 4yr. cousin. His stay-at-home mother only allows shoot 'em up movies when he's asleep. To satisfy his father. ;^)

[BlueLancer]

Ah, but you forget that the proposal is to make France and Germany into basically a super-state with dual citizenship for their citizens.

Therefore, Dieter is French and Jerry Lewis is German.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

About 60% of American boys are genitally mutilated in infancy, while French boys are overwhelmingly not.

"Genitally mutilated" is the author's term for circumcision. I'd say the use of the phrase smacks of anti-semitism.