Innate differences between boys and girls?

[Saffron]

After having read several excerpts from her gender book, and looked at her personal history, I thought Cordelia Fine's book was a thinly veiled lament over the resentment she felt in her own childhood at having been subjected to unfair stereotypes. She is quite simply wrong when she says, "there is no convincing evidence that our brains are hardwired according to gender". Her assumptions are illogical and incomplete.

[gwod]

When my eldest daughter was a toddler I was very adroit about making sure she had boys toys as well as girls ones. I was smug and self congratulatory about how much she played with the dinosaurs....until I noticed she had seperated them all into families and the the stegasauruses were tucking that baby t-rexs in for the night and giving them a kiss. She's a girl, through and through, but above that she's herself. Not much that we can do to influence it! (Nor would I ant to!!)

[dulwichgirl2]

Gwod, that is hilarious!

[amydown]

That is so so sweeeeet!!! (and yes, I'm quite girly I think but that hasn't stopped me from doing anything I've wanted to do)

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> When my eldest daughter was a toddler I was very

> adroit about making sure she had boys toys as well

> as girls ones. I was smug and self congratulatory

> about how much she played with the

> dinosaurs....until I noticed she had seperated

> them all into families and the the stegasauruses

> were tucking that baby t-rexs in for the night and

> giving them a kiss. She's a girl, through and

> through, but above that she's herself. Not much

> that we can do to influence it! (Nor would I ant

> to!!)

[gwod]

Similarly, I noticed that my nephews have tried to dissasemble Baby Bjorn on a recent visit, not in a distructive way, just to see what's inside. It had never occurred to my 4 girls to do that...Different. Very different.