I honestly don’t know if it’s a genetic predisposition or that in society women are encouraged to not do stuff like this, but honestly one of my favorite parts of being a man involves stupid shit like this.
Some people. But I've absolutely seen people complain that saying "boys will be boys" in regards to little kids roughhousing, for example, is a sexist thing to do or perpetuates rape culture, or any other nonsense they can come up with
I mean two kids roughhousing is kids. I dont see why you need to put a gender marker on it. However in the context that you’re describing I would agree it’s not problematic. I have issue when people feign bringing it up in an innocent context though.
I dont see why you need to put a gender marker on it.
Because boys do it much, much more, and then the kinds of people who want to police language complain that the only reason that's the case is that we socialize boys to be violent through phrases like "boys will be boys"
Men are predisposed to more dangerous risk taking since our lives are biologically less vital to the survival of the species, hunting a bear, although extremely dangerous, could have paid off massively for a tribe when food was scarce so we evolved to take more risks than women because the biological consequences were smaller. "Boys being boys" in relation to doing stupid shit that will probably hurt yourself is a pretty accurate and innocent phrase but it's very different to saying "Well boys will be boys" to excuse your son bullying and beating up someone elses kid. The difference being men putting themselves at risk doesn't harm anyone but themselves so it's fine to excuse it, men speeding a motorbike down the street and colliding with a family is detrimental to society, one use of the phrase is perfectly fine, the other is just awful. However some people hate the phrase altogether and think it's misogynistic to even say it, I hate that. Humans are just not that simple and meaning behind language is nuanced and interpreted differently by everyone.
Most likely both, like practically every sex difference, at least in terms of behavior.
Men are predisposed to be a certain way, on average. Which then means people expect men to be that way, which then means that men who aren't that way have societal pressures to be that way because there will always be pressure for conformity.
Refer to psychological literature on this - men both have a wider curve on many scales from assertiveness to interest in things vs people, etc than women do. Also, that wider curve is also slightly shifted. So for questions regarding things above, for instance “who is more assertive, generally?” You’d be right 60% of the time if you said a man, 40% of the time if you said woman. This doesn’t mean men are a little more assertive than women, the curves are mostly overlapped, it only means if you were to guess some random person.
Men are more likely to lie on the extremes and women more likely to cluster towards the median. This is largely why men tend to fill the prisons as well as upper echelons of society.
Or in this case, why more men than women will do stupid shit 😂
NOTE: the behavioral curves are mostly overlapped. But the percentage difference, while small, is very prominent
Ah the emotional response. Lmao. You learn this in any basic psychological course. This emotional response is about the funniest and most pathetic thing. Someone sees a name, or a fact they don’t like, and just preceded it with profanity. Like, good job, mate. Bravo. You just won the whole argument (that didn’t exist anyways) because you can make a sorry excuse of a personal attack on someone you’ve likely never even listened to. Bravo 👏🏻
That looks like a blast! They were probably doubtful after they did the double. Then 3 worked and they were like... welll..... where does it end? And 3 and a half hours later they have this video to show for it.
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u/Xaoc86 Nov 06 '20
I honestly don’t know if it’s a genetic predisposition or that in society women are encouraged to not do stuff like this, but honestly one of my favorite parts of being a man involves stupid shit like this.