Boys and Girls Options

[*Kathleen*]

Okay, so I watched a video on this in health class today...haha. All right, the question is: are men and women born differently? Or has our society made it seem that way? Why do girls automatically play with Barbie dolls and boys like violence? Why do women remember landmarks better than guys, and guys can work better with maps? Just little things like that...are we truly born different? Womens' rights activists say our society just makes it seem that way. Scientific stuides prove otherwise. I don't know what to think about this yet...what do you have to say about it?

[antix10_kos]

Hmm, I guess I was an exception to the rule. As a child, I was an avid BMX-er and outdoors person. I had dolls, but I didn't really play with them. I got a computer when I was 10 and from there I became a "nerd". I always read a lot, watched a lot of violent and gory movies and tv shows, as well as anime. I began listening to rock and metal at a young age.....typically, American society thinks of those things as "boy" activities.

When we moved to the suburbs, I got into horror movies, science fiction, psychology, computers, electronics, music. I got way into the works of Jhonen Vasquez, and slasher flicks. I got into industrial music and starting dressing in all black. I got into the pits at concerts, hung out with mostly guys, and was a loner type person throughout most of high school. More "guy" things, I suppose.

Today, I'm about half-and-half. I take care of pretty much all of my and my boyfriend's personal matters, like finances and cooking and such. If there's anything that needs to be fixed, like the computer or one of the 1000 electronic gadgets that we own, I'm the one that breaks out the instruction manual and fixes it. I love violent video games but I also enjoy RPGs and Sims-like games. I love anime, the Discovery Channel and slasher flicks but I also enjoy talk shows and some chick filcks. I've stopped getting in the pit at shows (I fractured my skull a year ago in a pit) but I still love going to shows and rocking out to my favorite songs. I love my music and am more of nerd about my music than anything else...

In the end, I believe that society plays a part and so does nature. Obviously, nature is what causes us to be one gender or the other. Society tells us that girls are supposed to be pretty, soft-spoken, neat, and organized. They're supposed to be good with words, bad at math, and dislike getting dirty and sports. Girls aren't supposed to get into fist fights or mosh pits. Blah Blah Blah....Boys are supposed to like those kinds of things and are encouraged to do things like fight, perform well in school, like sports, hate reading.......Blah Blah Blah....Some people are just a mixture of traits and a bit of both as far as personality goes.