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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a boy who is older, and who plays with a lot of girls, and yes - there are (generalized) differences! Things like risk taking, style of play, physicality, noise, when certain types of maturity occur, etc... [b]It's real[/b]. It's not all kids, but it's a generalization that bears weight in lots of cases. So I guess I am a #boymom.

Would I ever write that hashtag on Facebook or something? No way. That seems icky. Like showing a photo of my new concealer and saying #onlyforladiez - I mean sure, mostly for ladies, but that's not the entire truth!

When I've noted differences aloud to closer friends or neighbors, I usually say "I hate to generalize" or "This probably is just my experience" and 9 out of 10 times the other person say "Oh. No. I see it. It's real." They just don't hashtag it![/quote]

Nope. It's socialization. [/quote]

You should check out the book "as nature made him".

Tldr a baby boy's entire life is horribly ruined because of the belief that gender differences are nothing more than "socialization"[/quote]

Thanks, I've read it! Have a degree in this stuff, actually. As Nature Made Him is entirely different that says boys are rough girls are gentle--in that case a boy whose penis was burned during a botched circumcision was surgically and hormonally turned into a girl because doctors thought it would be easier for him to grow up that way. Obviously it didn't work out so well.

But yall go ahead and keep talking about innate gender differences. I swear, DCUM is the weirdest place. [/quote]

So how do you come out saying it's all socialization.  That makes no sense. [/quote]

Oh my god, because they're very different situations! In As Nature Made Him, the boy wasn't like "oh why do I love playing with trucks and why can't I be sweet and gentle?" I think you missed the point. [/quote]

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