Some hopes for a daughter/son

(from 1/20/2014)
I’ve gotten pretty interested in reading about women’s rights, sexual harassment, sexism, and human rights.

This highschool (?) girl wrote an excellent post about “feel free to sexually harass.”

A couple of lines I specifically liked from her post were “boys will be boys” and how that tumblr_mz5p6p5wL81sdkjujo1_500pretty much condones sexual harassment. Both assigning behavior to boys, simply because they’re boys, and making a cute excuse for acting out.

Why do boys seem to get into more trouble than girls? Is that generalization not based in facts? How do boys misbehave vs. how do girls misbehave?

I wish there was an eloquent response or post from a boy at this school. Maybe I’ll see if I can write her and try and get her to repost a blog from a boy that’s like a response to this or something.

From what I’ve read, girls develop a better vocabulary and the ability to express themselves earlier in life than boys do. I don’t think you can make a sweeping generalization that girls are better at writing than boys at any age. But this blog entry is good! Maybe the writing skills also translate to misbehaving.

Perhaps boys and girls at the same age, and different developmental stages both misbehave – but the type of misbehavior is different enough that one of them lands in the principal’s office and the other just gets nasty looks.