Boys vs. Girls

[Christianbookworm]

Why do men and women still engage in the juvenile playground squabble of whether girls or boys are better? Light hearted debate is okay seeing that this is Civics, but please act your age. Otherwise, I shall treat you as if you were the age of my nieces. Two of them are in the pre-operational stage and three are in the sensori-motor stage.

[Bisto]

Why do men and women still engage in the juvenile playground squabble of whether girls or boys are better? Light hearted debate is okay seeing that this is Civics, but please act your age. Otherwise, I shall treat you as if you were the age of my nieces. Two of them are in the pre-operational stage and three are in the sensori-motor stage.

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

Because boys are better, clearly.

Seriously now, I haven't looked too much into this, But I would guess it starts with there being actual differences between the sexes (there can be exceptions in one or another metric, but there still would be statistical differences), and the competitiveness in our behavior that would naturally have us focus on such things. In fact, I don't remember where I read that men are more competitive than women.

Feel free to question any of the above. Except the fact I haven't looked too much into the topic

[Mountain Man]

I've not seen anybody here claim that one gender is objectively better than the other except in a playful rejoinder. Does the OP have a specific example in mind?

[Cow Poke]

Because boys are inherently better at some things, and girls are inherently better than other things.

[rogue06]

I've not seen anybody here claim that one gender is objectively better than the other except in a playful rejoinder. Does the OP have a specific example in mind?

I'd hazard a wager that CBW is thinking of this thread: http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...laining-Really

[JonathanL]

Because boys are inherently better at some things, and girls are inherently better than other things.

Aha! You really are a sexist pig, you old geezer!

[Cow Poke]

Aha! You really are a sexist pig, you old geezer!

Girls were girls and men were men....

[37818]

There are some known differences in their brain development.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...etween-genders

[Darth Ovious]

Why do men and women still engage in the juvenile playground squabble of whether girls or boys are better? Light hearted debate is okay seeing that this is Civics, but please act your age. Otherwise, I shall treat you as if you were the age of my nieces. Two of them are in the pre-operational stage and three are in the sensori-motor stage.

I think part of the problem is that it was encouraged by the modern day feminist movement to pit women against men. Please note I said part of the problem and also note that I'm giving this as a serious answer.

For example there is an erroneous idea floating about now that says that men are just failed women and they use pseudo science to try and justify it. The idea being is that a baby develops into a female naturally and men just fail to complete that development.

Remember the old feminist saying. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle". The implication being of course that there is no symbiotic relationship between men and women, despite the fact that there is and that women should be completely independent from men. This has also been because a lot of feminists consider women to above men rather than their equals despite their claims of supporting equality.

I still remember when a boy back at school said to me that girls were smarter than boys. The irony of course was that this boy who said this to me was a straight A student. This attitude is one which was also encouraged and it probably still is.

[Bisto]

I still remember when a boy back at school said to me that girls were smarter than boys. The irony of course was that this boy who said this to me was a straight A student. This attitude is one which was also encouraged and it probably still is.

FWIW, in school I was the "straight A" kid, but right after me the other 'hard-studying' kids were mostly girls. Boys and girls were both all along the mark spectrum, of course, but I did get the impression there were more girls than boys at the higher end. As far as my class was concerned, I would have agreed with your classmate. I couldn't say the same in uni since I don't see any significant difference here (and there are less women in my major too!).

[Darth Ovious]

FWIW, in school I was the "straight A" kid, but right after me the other 'hard-studying' kids were mostly girls. Boys and girls were both all along the mark spectrum, of course, but I did get the impression there were more girls than boys at the higher end. As far as my class was concerned, I would have agreed with your classmate. I couldn't say the same in uni since I don't see any significant difference here (and there are less women in my major too!).

It's down to the way that the education system has been manipulated to favour girls over boys. Consider this. When you look at IQ scores there is no real noticeable difference between girls and boys, yet there is a persistence that girls are smarter than boys. It's just not true.

[Christianbookworm]

I'd hazard a wager that CBW is thinking of this thread: http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...laining-Really

You are correct! Some humans are rude and like to interrupt and monopolize on purpose. I may accidentally do those things. Not on purpose. I just do not hear very well.

[Christianbookworm]

It's down to the way that the education system has been manipulated to favour girls over boys. Consider this. When you look at IQ scores there is no real noticeable difference between girls and boys, yet there is a persistence that girls are smarter than boys. It's just not true.

There are different types of intelligence. Maybe I should have titled this thread "Shoehorning People into Stereotypes is Stupid"? Oh! And are boys more likely to learn by moving? Because boys are often more active than girls. They also take longer to develop, but that does not make them stupid. Except when they are teens. Teenagers are stupid on account of their prefrontal cortex developing.

[rogue06]

I think part of the problem is that it was encouraged by the modern day feminist movement to pit women against men. Please note I said part of the problem and also note that I'm giving this as a serious answer.

For example there is an erroneous idea floating about now that says that men are just failed women and they use pseudo science to try and justify it. The idea being is that a baby develops into a female naturally and men just fail to complete that development.

Remember the old feminist saying. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle". The implication being of course that there is no symbiotic relationship between men and women, despite the fact that there is and that women should be completely independent from men. This has also been because a lot of feminists consider women to above men rather than their equals despite their claims of supporting equality.

I still remember when a boy back at school said to me that girls were smarter than boys. The irony of course was that this boy who said this to me was a straight A student. This attitude is one which was also encouraged and it probably still is.

Not to mention how some of these feminist studies courses in colleges teach that men are not part of the family (defined as the mother and children) but is instead some sort of outsider. Essentially little more than a wallet with a pulse.

[rogue06]

It's down to the way that the education system has been manipulated to favour girls over boys. Consider this. When you look at IQ scores there is no real noticeable difference between girls and boys, yet there is a persistence that girls are smarter than boys. It's just not true.

And the whole ADD/ADHD thing is designed to get boys to be like girls. Boys, as a general rule, are naturally more boisterous and rambunctious so schools encourage parents to drug them so that they are less rowdy and more like the girls.