I can't remember anyone ever telling me I need to apologise for my opinion. I've been told I need to know what I'm talking about but never that my gender was relevant to that. https://twitter.com/goddoesnt/status/942156120130510848 …
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On average. As you say, many kids do not fit the mould so there are bossy boys and rowdy girls.
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Although, when you go on a primary school trip you will have a far more relaxing day if you choose to be in charge of the girls. They don't spend the entire day trying to kill or be killed!
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This is true. I found boys harder when very young. As the mother of daughters, was unprepared for constant vigilance needed to prevent them killing themselves. In other ways easier. Girls more argumentative.
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As a comedian once said... Boys will bully with a punch or a kick. Girls won't stop til you have an eating disorder.
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It’s the same with bullying tactics; boys are more prone to the fisticuffs and girls are more prone to verbal attacks and forcing social exclusion.
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Yes. Precisely.
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I suppose the claim is that boys and girls who display a similar style of assertiveness get different receptions and that this encourages girls to be more consensual in style.
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Yes. I am sceptical of it. I think evolutionary psychology & neuroscience explain differences in communication styles more convincingly especially as they seem to be pancultural and ahistorical & comparable degrees of assertion vs conciliation are evident in the other great apes.
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I’m dubious about the claim of evo psych to fully explain gender differences as there seems to be a cultural dimension too, and they do change across history and societies. I’m not denying a biological element, as some do -eg boys are more violent. But context plays a part.
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