Shadowryuu

Okay, I'll explain: Boys don't like weapons. They like tools. This is one of the largest gaps between men and women, and incredibly well-established. Boys are interested in "things" and conceptualize them as tools. Girls are interested in people and conceptualize them as relationships. She thinks that we're "socially conditioning boys to be violent" which is why they're "fascinated by weapons." No. They're learning how to use tools, and hitting something with another object is about the earliest "tool using behavior" possible. Even some birds do it. Boys fascinated by UTILITY; the idea that an object has undiscovered potential to do things. Her concerns and analysis could easily be resolved if she would bother to familiarize herself with the century of scientific literature on the subject. This is a good example of why journalists should report instead of comment: if they actually understood things (or had the capacity to do so), they'd be doing them instead of reporting on them.