Roxane Gay
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Because they never ever produce solutions that address how to encourage boys to have those same ambitions.
Instead, they'll say things like, boys learn and develop slower.
They mature slower.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah, like, and it's just so, and it also does such a disservice to boys.
Yes, yes.
Because boys are listening.
And so then you get boys who are disaffected, who don't care, who don't invest in themselves because they're told, oh, I'm already being left behind, so why bother?
Right.
Can you imagine?
It's just the bigotry of low expectations.
It's doing the exact same thing.
And they're absolutely smart.
And I actually think that starting boys a year later is a phenomenal idea.
But so many parents get caught up in thinking that that means that they have some sort of deficiency.
And it's like, no, they're just not as ready to be out in the world.
gaining independence, et cetera.