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Some of the real gender differences are so obvious that it’s amazing they were overlooked. For example, the average boy has 30 percent more muscle bulk than the average girl. Boys are stronger and their bodies are more inclined to action. They even have far more red blood cells (the original red-blooded boy!). It has nothing to do with gender conditioning. We have to give boys plenty of chance to exercise – girls too if they want it. Boys will need extra help to control themselves from hitting both each other and girls. Girls need help to learn not to use their better verbal skills to needle and demean boys. And so on.

This doesn’t mean saying, ‘Every boy must …’ or ‘Every girl must …’. After all, some girls are stronger and more physical than many boys. (Some girls need training in nonviolence. In one Sydney school, some parents removed their sons because the girls kept hitting them.) Gender differences are generalisations that are true enough of the time to be very helpful.