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by bobfromhuddle 4516 days ago
> I reject the premise that boys and girls are different, at least, prior to puberty. For a kid of 3 years, I contend that they are exactly the same, but that they are treated differently, and that is what makes the difference.

That's a fashionable notion in our post-modern world, but wrong. Young rhesus monkeys display gender-specific toy preferences in line with human behaviour: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X08...

Boys and girls are different, though I'll agree with you that most of the pressure to look good is societal rather than innate. Worse: most of it comes from other women.