[Malacoda]

Indeed. Any trait even remotely competitive or agressive is drugged or punished out of them; they look to a mommy-figure or feminized male to see what's "correct."

They start early, too. Sadly, I've seen this in the way some relatives treat my son -- he's the only male child in a family with seven female cousins, and the complaints about how "noisy and agressive" he is -- just doing "boy-things," like playing with Tonka trucks -- are ridiculous.

[cyborg]

I'm homeschooling my children if it works out that way. Never know what God has planned but I can't imagine sending boys to school.