In yet another of those seemingly endless nature-versus-nurture discussions about “are boys and girls really inherently different, or do we just teach them to be?” my sister-in-law, who has the experience of having raised three boys, provided what may be definite evidence in the debate.
She told me that, having compared notes with her friends who raised girls, there is a very telling similarity, and an even more telling difference.
The similarity is that whether you walk into a bathroom shared by daughters or a bathroom shared by sons, you find the bathtub or shower overrun by a vast variety of shampoo bottles.
The difference is that in the girls’ bathroom all the shampoo bottles have shampoo in them. In the boy’s bathroom they are all empty.
As long as I am experiencing astonishment by my female friends, when my (male) partner is clearing the table, there still has to be something wrong with the role models in our society any way. This is pretty much the same when I am asked where my weak side is – no man would ever ask a man something like this.
And as long as I am not allowed to wear a short skirt in business, because I could irritate a man.
I could go on with this list for ever and ever.
There is no biological excuse for what I simply call bad behaviour.
And empty bottles in the bathroom of the boys, does mean two things:
firstly) not knowing where the bin is
and secondly) bad planning. 😉
Yeah! Let’s extend this: why do people who don’t know where the bin is and are seemingly bad planners grow up to make more money and hold more power in society than those who are efficient and contain knowledge of where the bin is?
grrrr…..