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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are boys all being raised badly or are girls simply more resilient and adaptable?  Why do we make so many excuses for males?[/quote]

Girls mature faster and earlier. That is a biological fact. School, college, the work force etc is geared to a system that rewards early maturity and penalizes those that need more support and time to mature. In a nutshell that’s it, on the macro level. Individual exceptions of course. [/quote]

If men are just biologically incapable of measuring up, maybe we need to accept them. Confine them to work in coal mines or boot camps- hard physical labor. Given girls/women the positions of strategy and leadership.  Maybe this is a positive change and we will step into the patriarchy we all deserve. This is the future.[/quote]

PP who made that statement. It’s not an issue of not measuring up. Boys develop and mature differently than girls do. Absolutely, in kindergarten and through school, girls are probably better able to handle positions of strategy and leadership, sooner than are most boys. They have better executive functioning skills, as one example.

This does not hold true throughout life. Fortunately boys do catch up and go in to thrive often despite the messages they have been given along the way.

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