Lucretia said:
True. But sometimes. If you are refering to certain age then my opinion is that children behave they way you teach them. If those girls grow up in an environment (school included) that they have to grow those characteristics, they will do it. And pretty well if I may say so. And this is where the "hard work" a parent must do begins.
From seven, but anything as early as five, well into thirteen or sixteen. To be frank, the environment in question is the society in general. In kindergarten they'd squabble over crayons; in elementary school they'd squabble over any number of things, or compete because of grades, and so on and so forth. As teenagers, there are popularity contests.
Kiya said:
A lot has to do with socialisation and gender role - girls are not encouraged to carry out aggressions in an open way - as little boys (still) are. Gender role as a prison plays a terrible role - not only parents, teachers or other adults - all those, who never questioned themselves, but "grew" into a role and are not aware of this, are parts of this "gender conspiracy".
Bingo. Change this -- change the whole outlook of mass populations and change ingrained pre-conceptions -- and perhaps there'll be results. Until then, I'll just shrug and say "Eh."
There's a reason I dislike children. They're cute to look at from afar, but expose me to one within five-meters radius for any extended period of time, and I'll be feeling homicidal urges.
Faralas said:
But this whole discussion has turned into picking apart personalities.
Precisely. I don't know what's with online discussions, but if anything remotely resembling an argument occurs, things almost always degenerate into psychoanalyzing ("Look, this person must have no life and suffer from inferiority/Oedipus/Lolita/whathaveyou complex" is a common one) and taking jabs at people's characters. Most people who do this aren't particularly knowledgeable where psychology is concerned, anyway.
