Who says raising boys is easier?

[redqueen]

62. That's funny because Snake Alchemist is busy saying it's a myth that boys mature more slowly.

I suppose that since kids also encourage each other to smoke cigarettes and play with matches and who knows what other kinds of shenanigans, we should also stop teaching them to not do such things... surely that's pissing in the wind, right?

The fact is that not all boys are macho little ruffians, and not all girls want to be pretty pretty princesses. Indoctrinating them to think so while they're still too young to know better is a recipe for little boys who don't fit in their gender boxes to be harassed by the children of parents who think it's a waste of time to bother addressing the idiocy of this kind of thoughtless programming that serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever that I can tell.

Perhaps you might clue me in on what awesomely great thing teaching kids to conform to gender roles is supposed to do. Is there even one good thing that's supposed to come of it? Or is it just a bad habit that some people are too lazy to bother discontinuing, despite the very obvious problems it creates?