The worlds of boys and girls are completely different from each other in the sense that both genders grew up with different societal norms. It seems normal to us now that boys will be boy and girls will be girls. However, in reality, girls and boys both get their tendencies through the distinct separations they develop in their early school years. While boys have more tendencies to be rougher and tease others, they slowly absorb these tendencies from others. In early years of schooling, boys act in a more affectionate way and are more friendly with each other but they slowly start to develop tendencies separate from what is considered girly. In doing so, boys begin to act more like the boys that are stereotyped in society. It is very common to see the mixture of what plays a role in molding a typical boy, including sports, teasing, and same gender interactions. The separation of genders is what plays the most important role in the distinct separation of the development of boys and girls.
In girl interaction, its evidently very different than boys. Their priorities are more circled around popularity and gossip within each other and about each other. They tend to look at boys more than boy look at them. However, they don’t interact with them willingly because it is simply not done. Girls hang out with girls and boys hang out with boys, that’s the stigma that leads their social lives for most of their beginning years in a social setting. The difference between boys and girls mostly stems from the outside influences that convince them that is the way they are supposed to act. No one ever tells them differently but rather adults encourage the gender separation at early ages and raise their kids to not act certain ways because it’s not appropriate. They instead tell boys to not be soft like girls and tell girls that it isn’t cute when they try to act tough like boys. This further separates the genders and limits their interactions to what is later seen as normal and expected.
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