- Posted December 29, 2012 by This iReport is part of an
assignment: Hardwired or trained? Are we raising our boys to be
aggressive, dominant and violent and teaching our girls to be
submissive, empathic and expressive, or is it just how they are
genetically wired? Most of us do not waste a minute
distinguishing between males and females starting at birth, by
the pink and blue blankets we assign to them, and it pretty much
starts from there with gender stereotype toys, dolls and cooking
utensils for girls versus big trucks and swords for boys. Are
boys and girls drawn to different toys, activities, and
behaviors, or do we force it on them? Is it due to gender-
specific marketing or genetics? We are told that there are
innate differences between males and females; differences in
color recognition, mathematical abilities, spatial skills,
tendency toward aggressive behaviors, and other things, but
overwhelming number of studies find that most, if not, of all
these abilities, to a great degree, are shaped by the s