One thing I learned avidly about inside of school is that boys and girls are one and the same and both are equal. Not only that, but they should also not be treated any different or thought of in any way that indicates that they are anything else but exactly the same.
To this, I believe there was a change that should be looked into.
When girls and boys are expected to be exactly the same they're held to the same standard.
And I'll tell you this. There's a difference between guys and girls.
Girls like certain things and guys like other things.
This psychology article outlines 4 major differences in the brain between the male and female gender.
https://gostream.is/film/star-trek-2009-3026/watching.html?ep=788729
At my school, there is a huge prevalence of depression. Extremely bad.
There is a cause for this, and I'm starting to think that it's in the idea that boys and girls should be treated the same.
Which is what I'd like to debate. That article shows some differences between male and female psychology. Given that there are differences, should they be held to the same standard as each other? And by standard, I don't mean like grades or stuff like that. I mean how they act, how they behave, how they think.
Boys are expected to "ignore feelings" more than girls. But when they're told they're the same, and that girls are just as strong as boys and should deal with their emotions, this article suggests there may be a problem with that.
So starting with a very simple detachment of what I originally wished to discuss.
Should girls be expected to brush off their emotions like guys, should guys be expected to cultivate their feelings more, or should we let them go to operate how they are mentally wired to think?
Does this create advantages/disadvantages, and is it possible this is a partial cause of the large depression epidemic in my generation?
Genuine curiosity is still in ethics.
Depression is a terrible thing to have and I know you wouldn't disagree. I provided an article, just now, and I'd like to know if you think treating them the same is contributing to larger depression rates or not. If it is, I'm willing to take the position that we should start to rethink the whole "boys and girls are the same" ideal.
As for that random youtube video, it was meant to draw attention to the current setup of how my generation seems to think about gender equality. And that is that we're exactly the same mentally, and what one can handle, the other can handle just as easily.