Biological Differences

I thought that today's discussion was quite interesting. Why is it that little girls can play with trucks in the dirt and nobody worries but if little boys play with dolls everybody freaks out? I think that Bem's theory makes a lot of sense. Young people (actually people of all ages) are very sensitive to other people's opinions of them. So if a young man is constantly hearing people tell him he's gay it makes sense that he'll start to wonder about his sexuality and eventually believe it. The same principle can apply to academics or the story of Johnny Lingo. If a child is constantly told by his or her teachers, parents, and peers that he or she is stupid he or she will begin to believe it, this could cause them to not be able to concentrate on the material then they do poorly on an exam and that confirms it to the child, and it's just a vicious cycle. Mahana was told by her father and everybody in the village that she was ugly so she believed it so much that it reflected in her countenance. The way I see it is a lot of people end up considering themselves gay because of misunderstandings.