The social conservatives who fought racial progress tooth and nail are now thoroughly discredited. Now that social pioneers have made such important progress with race it is time we took a hard look at gender. The social conservatives will fight it just as hard as they did racial progress but they will be just as thoroughly discredited. I'm looking forward to it. Little girls are delicate and nuturing.
Little boys love rough housing and catching snakes.
Little boys play football in school and little girls cheer them to victory. We insist that that is the natural order of things. When little boys grow up to be congressmen and little girls to be their dutiful campaign wifes it seems like it must be natural. We don't see the hand of culture at work. We teach little boys it is okay, even preferable to play rough.