A bit off-topic perhaps, but my post so I'm allowed to do that, right?
...rewarding the sort of sitting-still, rule-following, conformist behavior that girls are much more suited to (on average) than boys
Isn't the military all about rule-following and conformist behavior? Not so much the sitting-still, I suppose, but anyway... And yet the military is very much male-dominated....
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Date: 2006-01-27 03:11 pm (UTC)...rewarding the sort of sitting-still, rule-following, conformist behavior that girls are much more suited to (on average) than boys
Isn't the military all about rule-following and conformist behavior? Not so much the sitting-still, I suppose, but anyway... And yet the military is very much male-dominated....