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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the above PPs parents of girls only? I have a boy who is and will be well above average due to luck and privilege. But I can’t imagine being so cavalier and dismissive of other boy parents.[/quote] Give me a call when the President and Vice President are both women, the Supreme Court are all women, Wall Street and industry are led by women, the military, science, academia, medicine, etc. Boys are fine. Even mediocre boys and men are advantaged over women.[/quote] +1 What I took away from this was - girls outperform boys pretty much everywhere, and yet boys still run the world. Hmmm...[/quote] What you are missing is that boys eventually catch up, and of course can also move beyond if they are encouraged to keep moving forward (which isn't happening everywhere the way it used to). They develop slower, and the difference happens to be the most stark just at that point in time when academic performance sets you on the path to the next level. Once you get to college and grad school however, boys finish their brain development and catch up and/or move beyond. This is similar to the research on gifted brains in early childhood: they physically develop more slowly because they are growing more neurons on more surface area.[/quote] Indeed. Boys develop later—in some cases they don’t hit peak intellectual capability until late 20s. The current maniacal emphasis on sports above academics is not healthy, nor is the anti-man noise all over this idiotic board, especially considering that about half of the children of the moms on here are boys.[/quote]
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