People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.
I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!
Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.
If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
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