There is no truth that girls respond more to sounds and boys to sights. Neither sex is more ‘visual’ nor more ‘auditory’ than the other. This is interesting because it is still believed that adull women respond less to erotic visual stimuli than do men, which 11 >. i \ be the basis of the publication of a large amount of erotica In newspapers and magazines showing curvaceous, nubile women; while erotica of naked males exposing their genitals are rar found.
There is no truth that boys are better at understanding complicated ideas than girls, and that girls are better at rote-learning and doing simple repetitive tasks than boys. Nor is there any truth in the belief that boys can analyse problems better and can reason logically better. This means that the following verse is a libel on women:
It was written by a man, of course!
It does seem that girls do better academically, as judged by school grades, until adolescence is reached, but the difference between boys and girls is not great. And when a boy is aroused to compete, by pressure from his parents or from his age-mates, he becomes a greater ‘achiever’ than a girl.
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