Differences Between Boys and Girls-A Forward That I Received

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Boys and Girls

"Equal" is not always synonymous with "the same." Men and women are created equal. But, boys and girls are not born the same.

1. You throw a little girl a ball, and it will hit her in the nose. You throw a little boy a ball, and he will try to catch it. Then it will hit him in the nose.

2. You dress your little girl in her Easter Sunday best, and she'll look just as pretty when you finally make it to church an hour later. You dress a boy in his Easter Sunday best, and he'll somehow find every mud puddle from your home to the church, even if you're driving there.

3. Boys' rooms are usually messy. Girls' rooms are usually messy, except it's a good smelling mess.

4. A baby girl will pick up a stick and look in wonderment at what nature has made. A baby boy will pick up a stick and turn it into a gun.

5. When girls play with Barbie and Ken dolls, they like to dress them up and play house with them. When boys play with Barbie and Ken dolls, they like to tear off their appendages.

6. Boys couldn't care less if their hair is unruly. If their bangs got cut a quarter-inch too short, girls would rather lock themselves in their room for two weeks than be seen in public.

7. Baby girls find mommy's makeup and almost instintively start painting their face. Baby boys find mommy's makeup and almost instinctively start painting the walls.

8. If a girl accidently burps, she will be embarrassed. If a boy accidently burps, he will follow it with a dozen fake belches.

9. Boys grow their fingernails long because because they're too lazy to cut them. Girls grow their fingernails long - not because they look nice - but because they can dig them into a boys arm.

10. Girls are attracted to boys, even at an early age. At an early age, boys are attracted to dirt.

11. By the age of 6, boys will stop giving their dad kisses. By the age of 6, girls will stop giving their dad kisses unless he bribes them with candy.

12. Most baby girls talk before boys do. Before boys talk, they learn how to make machine-gun noises.

13. Girls will cry if someone dies in a movie. Boys will cry if you turn off the VCR after they've watched "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie three times in a row.

14. Girls turn into women. Boys turn into bigger boys.
 
Are those natural differences, or do those differences exist because of the way we raise our children to act like "boys" or "girls"?

Sorry, I'm writing a paper on gender ideology through advertisements for my college writing class. Taking a five minute break, so the arguments are still fresh in my mind :)

I was a typical girlie girl from birth. Refused to wear anything but a dress to pre-school. My sister, on the other hand, played with bugs and loved getting dirty.
 
Sorry....It was just a forward that I received....Let me add that to the title.
 
lol I'm sorry for making that more of a debate, college has turned me into an analytical monster ;)

It was a cute forward that just happened to fit in with the paper that I'm writing.
 

If you're becoming more analytical then your professors are doing their jobs :) As far as the debate goes, I'd say that most of the things are not natural differences....Gender is a social construct as are race, class, and religion.
 
I got a good laugh from those. Being the liberated, college-educated mom of both a boy & a girl, I can tell you that it's a lot of "nature" and a lot less "nuture" that influences the gender differences.

DD was given both dolls and trucks as a toddler. She used the trucks to give her dolls a ride.

DS was given both dolls and trucks as a toddler. He used the trucks to run over the dolls. So much for encouraging his "feminine" side.:rolleyes:
 
I will have to disagree and say that although nature and nurture both play a part in making boys boys and girls girls, nature wins out as having the larger role.

Here is an amazon review of a great book, "The Wonder of Boys" (Robert Guriam). I recommend this book to parents of boys (especially the wild kind ;) ), teachers and coaches.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
In the thoughtful and provocative The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men, therapist and educator Michael Gurian takes a close look at modern boyhood. Gurian asserts that the biological and neurological differences between boys and girls need to be accounted for and nourished in order to raise healthy, happy boys. In discussing boy culture--and the roles of competition, aggression, and physical risk taking--the author concludes, "It's not boy culture that's inherently flawed; it's the way we manage it." If the natural, testosterone-based impulses of boys are squelched or ignored, Gurian posits, such biological truths may find their way to the surface in other, more negative behaviors. He suggests that boys do best when they are part of a "tribe," three families that include: a birth or adoptive family; an extended family of friends, teachers, peers, and mentors; and the "family" of outside culture, media, religious institutions, and community figures. The Wonder of Boys offers advice on how to understand and build strong father/son and mother/son relationships, stresses the importance of healthy discipline, and suggests methods of teaching boys about sex, relationships, and spirituality. Parents and teachers of boys will find this book to be an insightful read. --Ericka Lutz
 
mad4themouse, I know exactly what you mean. When I became pregnant with son #2, I thought I'd do what all those well-meaning-but-clueless parenting magazines tell you to do. I went out and bought a little baby doll for Eric and explained to him about the new baby on the way. As much as I tried to teach him how to hold the "baby", he was happier to toss it around the room like a football. :rolleyes:
 
I didn't mean to start a debate :), but this is very interesting.
 
Should we ask the moderators to move this over to the debate board? Or we could start it as a debate over there? It's up to you honeywolf7! :hyper:
 
Okay, I started a new thread on the debate board and posted a link to this thread.
 
Tigerbear, IMO (and according to the Anthropology class that I took, a Sociology class I took, and my current Policing professor, race is a social construct. There are more biological differences within a race than between different races.
 


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