I choose to do my reflection this week on the article, "What's the Difference Between Boys and Girls". It wasn't very clear to me whether or not this article was saying there is a difference that is present at birth or if this is something that we are influenced by our environments. I would tend to agree that essentially women and men are the same basically when it comes to biology. I would tend to think we vary differently on our thought processes. It is true that most of the stuff for little girls is pink or colorful, soft and has to do with beauty and that boys stuff is very mechanical and usually has a lot of moving parts and things to tinker with. I grew up with all brothers. My mom was around, but she was busy being a mom more than a woman, so I had to learn how to do all the things that make me a woman. My brothers are all very different. Two out of three actually were more interested in music and computers than working on cars or building things. I have a niece who started exhibiting her tendancies towards being a "girly" girl very early on. When she was 1, she started carry around baby dolls. I thought to myself, "She is still just a baby herself!" I am not sure if there was influence from her mother or not. I also had heard on a radio show once that because girls were always being told they are beautiful or that what they are wearing is so pretty it was actually changing them to think that is they way they need to be instead of what they should be. She was saying that we, as adults, shouldn't do this with little girls. I don't agree. I think a little girl, just as much as a woman needs to hear they are beautiful.