I remember early on in grade school that girls did better in my classes. Whether they were brighter, or more serious in their studies, their grades demonstrated that they performed better, in general. I remember them (us) getting better grades in general, better behavioral scores, better report cards. If you want to dismiss my generalizations, well, they got good grades, they did very well!
It wasn't until around 7th grade that we really started learning about human history, how women were controlled and locked out of academia, out of even learning to read. I remember the boys giggling during those lessons, where they told us that men used to think they were superior. I took it all with a grain of salt, a thing of the past. Of course they had since seen the error of their ways. The fact that the boys were relishing that prehistoric dominance was just a little fun at our expense---or so I thought.
They never did relinquish those self-imposed accolades. They weren't learning about mistakes of the past. They were soaking in an inherited pseudo-glory. Back then it was still very much boys vs. girls, and now, history was on their side. I walked away shaking my head at the stupidity of men in the past, they walked away glowing.
I really wonder now, and through the end of high school and into college, how the psychological manipulation tactic of repetition has worked to sell the idea that men are more intelligent than women. Even the women who seem to fit this bill, I wonder how much that repetition wormed it's way into their psyches at a young age, like it did with so many boys.
For a group supposedly so gifted at math, I wonder how it all adds up? I was there, I lived and observed how dedicated girls were to their education, or at least to performing their best, as expected. I wonder how it added up, to 5 or 6 years later, not much being expected of them. Of how those immature, deviant boys won an accolade of intelligence merely with the passage of time.
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