A guy principal, unless gelded, will let girls be girls and boys be boys. A gal principal wants them both to be girls. A man will not try to force girls to play football. A woman will try to force boys to stop playing it. Because what is instinctive seems reasonable, few women have the foggiest idea what makes men tick.
Some women scuba dive, jump out of airplanes, shoot competitively.
The average teacheress doesn't. She can't imagine why boys like roughhousing, or hard-played basketball, or guns. When she says tag is too rough, she means that it is too rough for her. And with an intolerance peculiar to the sex, she believes that anything she can't understand must be reformed. Now, liberals and conservatives usually amount to twin halves of a national lobotomy, each cleaving passionately to its chosen lunacies, but there are real differences between the two.