Boys don't have it any easier than girls

In this post Matt Walsh follows up on his epic post I linked to the other day about the Ban Bossy movement. I highly recommend both of Matt's posts.

Apparently Matt received lots of complaints from feminists when he completely demolished the Ban Bossy arguments. So, today he calmly explains that girls don't have it any worse than boys.

Boys are frequently kicked out of school and sent hurtling on a path towards delinquency and failure, even for minor instances of physical aggression. Does it make sense to treat a kid like a dangerous psychopath just because he got into a minor shoving match or — horror of horrors — a fist fight? This is how boys often express their aggression. Girls express it in more damaging and traumatizing ways. They spread gossip and rumors, they shun and ostracize other girls, and these acts can reverberate through a child’s life much further and deeper than getting pushed into a locker or punched in the nose.

My son Jon was suspended from school (eighth grade) for one day Monday, and is on in-school suspension "doing janitor duties" for the rest of the week. What did he do? He tackled and kicked a boy who threw a tennis ball in his face last Friday.

I asked my daughter Sara. She said fifth grade girls are often sassy and think they are leaders, but most likely aren't real leaders. "Boys are wimps," she said. I asked her what did she mean by that. She gave me the example of her challenging boys to compete with her on the monkey bars, but the boys usually say they don't want to. they would rather go down the slide.

My son Greg said that girls are more likely than boys to be leaders in his seventh grade class. Greg calls himself ADHD. I tell him he does not have ADHD. He is just energetic!