[josephg]

> Idk. I feel like this is just culture trying to make up stories for each gender to define what deviance is supposed to look like

Regardless of how much the differences are cultural or innate, gender specific outcomes certainly show up in the data. Eg, this chart from the linked article:

https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8...

> the first step to overcoming them is disregarding the stupid stories that sound true

Yeah; it would help immensely if we could teach everybody that they're essentially healthy and worthy of love. Good, consistent parenting acts as an inoculation against these problems. When we're talking about the kids with the worst mental health outcomes, they're probably disproportionally poor, and more often than not come from single parent households. I suspect more support for struggling families would make more of a difference to the mental health outcomes of kids than somehow overcoming gender norms. It seems like a much more tractable solution, too.

Convincing regular people to not buy into the expectations of their own gender sounds like a borderline impossible task.