The Gender Equality Checkpoint

[Clodfobble]

Do we "learn" to wrench our minds away from distraction, though? Or do we simply grow up and it becomes easier with maturity? Give a 12-year-old easy access to drugs and there's a decent shot he'll take them, because his ability to envision the future and make rational decisions based on outcomes is not fully developed yet. Give a 21-year-old easy access to those same temptations, and he is far less likely to take them, even if he didn't spend his youth learning the hard way to say no all the time. All the studies show that if you can only delay the age of decision--not try to affect it or persuade in any way, only delay it by as many years toward adulthood as you can--the outcomes of those decisions will be far better.

It's not that females should always cover up. It's that children of both genders are simply not adults yet, and we shouldn't treat either of them as such.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

It's not that females should always cover up. It's that children of both genders are simply not adults yet, and we shouldn't treat either of them as such.

I agree - but that generally translates to an emphasis on modesty and physical appearance for girls as it relates to how boys might see them and react. Boys are supposed to look presentable and that's about it.