{"id":13774,"date":"2009-02-18T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=13774"},"modified":"2009-02-18T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T15:17:37","slug":"letting-boys-be-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/18\/letting-boys-be-boys.html","title":{"rendered":"Letting boys be boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are aggressive, even violent games … including video games … actually good <\/em>for boys<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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The idea for the book began when Tyre, a senior writer for Newsweek<\/em> at the time, wrote a 2006 cover story for the magazine, called “Boy Crisis.” The article focused on how boys were falling behind in school and what educational institutions were doing to address the issue. The figures are certainly worrying, according to Tyre: “Boys get expelled from preschool at four times the rates of girls,” she writes. “They are prescribed the lion’s share of ADHD medication, they get most of the C’s and D’s in middle school, and they drop out of high school more than girls. Currently, only 43% of undergraduates in the United States are men.” So what’s the solution? Tyre’s suggestion is simple enough: let boys be boys by simply letting them engage in the aggressive fantasies that come to them naturally.<\/p>\n

[…] Tyre stresses that many boys relate to violence no matter what their background is. “It doesn’t matter whether Mormons in Utah or lesbians in Cambridge are raising boys. Many of them play and think around violence,” Tyre said during a recent talk with a group of parents in North Salem, NY. “We might see them as doing something potentially dangerous. But actually what they’re doing is playing around with ideas of courage and valor, good versus evil, and teamwork. These are ideas we want to inculcate in our culture.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think anyone would consider me a violent person. But I loved playing tag, and “army man,” and other sorts of “violent” games as a kid. And it wasn’t just about “hurting” people, but about organized and pesonal efforts to an end.<\/p>\n

Interesting article, and food for thought.<\/p>\n

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(via Les and Ars Technica<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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