Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
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And they, you know, they are not encouraged to kind of burn off their energy.
And the whole school model has been framed around this idea of the kind of good girl who sits there passively and kind of just digests information in a way that doesn't suit lots of boys.
The New York Times had a really interesting report a couple of months ago about ADHD diagnosis in teenagers.
And one of the things I took away from that is that lots of them don't end up on medication that they start as teenagers in adulthood.
because they find a job that suits them better than being cooped up in school, put into this box that I think is particularly restrictive for boys.
You know, if we're going to take some of this ideology, perhaps we do say that girls and boys, on average, on average, maybe there are some differences between them, and that we need to be more attentive to the ways in which some bits of modern society aren't set up well for boys.
It's not a crazy thought.
I think of it differently to that, which is I think that there are girl-specific problems and there are boy-specific problems, and then there are some problems that affect all young people, you know, screen usage.
But that you break that down and it affects boys and girls in different ways.
Again, these on average is with huge amounts of exceptions.
You know, we're always talking very broad brushstrokes here.
But we, you know, there is some evidence, I think, that things like comparing yourself to other bodies and faces on Instagram hits girls particularly harder, right?
You know, social contagions of particular things hit girls harder.
And then at the same time, you get boys who are funneled towards crypto gambling, day trading.
You know, those things are more heavily peddled to men.
We know that the majority of problem gamblers are men.
But this comes out, I think, we're still steeped in this idea that everything is a kind of neat oppressor-oppressed binary.
And in the case of gender, there are still things and ways in which, like sexual violence being a very obvious example, that women are oppressed by men.
But I think we can also get to this stage now where we say it's not actually a competition.
A lot of times it's capitalism is doing it to both boys and girls, doing unpleasant things.
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