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“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers is an American author, scholar, and public intellectual known for her research on gender equality, educational policy, and criticism of feminism. Born in 1950, she graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in philosophy. more

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

World May Children Different Girl Parent Levels Boys Teacher Periods Classroom Domain Different Worlds Different Levels Outspoken Like A Boy

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“Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.”

People Country States School Levels Leader Position Produce Goes On Degrees Educational Department Public School Harvard High Level Administrators

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“I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.”

People Thinking Children Helping Healthy Normal Ill Attributes Fragile Pathology

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“I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.”

Thinking Men Want Happens Happened Men And Women Liberation Fallacy

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