The stereotype of "boys will be boys" in the sense of "boys are all hyper competitive insensitive alpha jerks" might just hurt boys in situations like these.
Re:The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
by antisthenes on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:35PM
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I wasn't aware of these, frankly, very disturbing trends in American society.
Thanks for bringing them to my attention.
Re:The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
by thaumasiotes on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:21AM
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This is one of those times where I'm going to ask about the downvotes.
You got my upvote. Boys are treated so differently within their own family, daughters given more love, attention and protection than boys. And then you just have to look at the few lines in the article to know how far this problem goes: "but what's happened is, particularly in schools where most of the teachers are women, there's been a general girlification of elementary school, where any kind of disruptive behavior is sinful"
Re:The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
by telesilla on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:16AM
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Let's just stick to the facts related to the argument. The article was not about comparing girls to boys except a small side-note about diagnosis ratios and the increasing expectation that children sit quietly at school. Your comment is a non-sequitur about boys being undesirable, which is not relevant to this particular discussion.
Re:The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
by thaumasiotes on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:17PM
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So, we've got two stylized facts:
1. In modern American culture, young boys, but not girls, are diagnosed with personality disorders and drugged into submission at rates so alarming that skeptics refer to things like "Youthful Tendency Disorder". ( https://www.theonion.com/more-u-s-children-being-diagnosed-w... )
2. Also in modern American culture, there appears to be a very strong preference for having female children over males.
But you don't think these could be related?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
> Many fertility doctors say that girls are the goal for 80 percent of gender selection patients. A study published in 2009 by the online journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online found Caucasian-Americans preferentially select females through PGD 70 percent of the time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/well/family/the-fear-of-h...
> a 2010 study [] discovered, among other things, that adoptive American parents preferred girls to boys by nearly a third. [] Adoptive parents are even willing to pay an average of $16,000 more in finalization costs for a girl than a boy.