[tim333]

That stuff's been tried and doesn't do the trick. Human nature's still there.

[jolux]

So it's "human nature" that boys like tech and girls like princesses?

[collyw]

Yes its been shown in monkey studies, so its actually deeper than human nature.

[jolux]

Male monkeys like computers and female monkeys like princesses? That's literally literally the most absurd statement I've ever processed.

[tim333]

The research was actually male monkeys like toy trucks, females like dolls. Check out the cute monkey pics:

http://www.livescience.com/22677-girls-dolls-boys-toy-trucks...

[collyw]

I posted a link about the study elsewhere in the thread.

[jolux]

I'm not really sure how a study about monkeys has any relevance to whether humans have engrained gender roles. People are cognitively far more complex and nature vs. nurture when it comes to gender is not really as decided as it might seem.

[drpgq]

Testosterone?

[tim333]

Surprisingly that might work - "Several animal studies have shown that hormonal manipulation can reverse sex-typed behavior. When researchers exposed female rhesus monkeys to male hormones prenatally, these females later displayed male-like levels of rough-and-tumble play."

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/you-can-giv...