Originally posted by tunnelight
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That social construction and judgment begins with giving girls dolls and encouraging them to play house and nurture, and giving boys action figures and encouraging them to be competitive and aggressive. We've gotten to the point that girls who want to be competitive and aggressive are encouraged, but we are lagging horribly at encouraging boys who want to be nurturing.
I'd say your pet theory (by which I mean theory about pets, lol) is a great way to sneak in nurturing training for boys in a socially acceptable way. But we still need to broaden what is socially acceptable. I think it's going to be a long time before we have equal numbers of men and women in daycare providing professions, for example.
I believe it's going to be a generational thing. We may be doing better with the current generation of boys, but the man that started this whole issue is from a previous one.
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