While I agree with your take about society, I disagree that boys have less space to be boys. Boys will be boys, no matter what the world does. There will never be a shortage of boys who want to throw rocks and jump in mud until their feet get stuck.
I dunno man. In school it seems that gossiping is more or less accepted where roughhousing is clearly banned. That sure seems to me like the world is trying to repress at least part of "boys will be boys".
In its majestic equality, the law prohibits boy and girl alike from engaging in socialization activities overwhelmingly favored by boys.
One of my fondest memories from my teenage years is visiting my older friends John and Kenny (who were only my friends because they used to babysit me), and Kenny put me into an iron cross and called everyone in to laugh at me and give me a red belly. Honestly, it was a bonding experience.
You know how they say it's the journey that matters, not the destination? It's kind of the same when you're struggling to escape from an iron cross. It doesn't matter that your stomach is being mercilessly slapped and everyone is laughing. That's just the destination. What matters is the bonding experience that was shared as I futilely struggled against Kenny's much larger body.
"Protecting" boys from their conflict resolution while allowing girl's preferred conflict resolution will only stunt their relative development.
You are saying this based based off of.. what exactly?
I disagree with this entirely. The world has a huge effect on what boys do. In a social media world driven by likes, clicks and endless consumption, you have to be very careful about what is said or done as it is easy for something to be take out of context, and magnified for the whole world to see.
Based on the fact that boys are indeed boys, and hence, they will be boys.
This seems wildly overstated and naive.
Things are rapidly changing.
Forget the world, a mother alone has a massive influence on whether a child will engage in the behaviour you are describing.
Yes, some children will shine through all odds stacked against them, but to put all your chips into nature over nurture isnt even close to reasonable.
It sounds like you're saying that "what we are" is less instrumental than "what we are told to be". We can agree to disagree.