Friday, October 16, 2009

Gender Research..

I researched for a gender difference article on Google, i ran across one that was quite interesting!Gender Differences.Excerpted from "Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences"
By Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
This article really touched the question are boys and girls really that different to begin with?
he describes an experiment that leads parents through the world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations. He connects these skits with saying For example, SOME girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, or SOME boys might have more strength and those differences that have turned into streo types, increase as kids grow up and teachers, parents and society have a HUGE impact. These impacts press these kids at a young age to be a certain way because it's the "right" way to be, who said this?? it's a streotype that has grown for too long and damaging the person people COULD'VE been. If these impacts were eliminated, IMAGINE the stress relif! with relationships-communication,demands men give, or being promiscuis being "cool"-, with education-the idea of girls having to be like barbie to be cool would be eliminated- and with family=D - you can open up, come out of the closet more easily, and not shunned upon by your family if your different than others(which could eliminate sucides and drug use).
In the beggining of the cycle of life a girl is a girl and a boy is a boy, but these three impact are blinding.
Do you agree? OR Disagree and why?

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