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Meredith Conroy's avatar

The idea that young women are more susceptible to their environment than young men is not only unsupported it’s probably wrong. Reeves writes about this concept of the dandelion and the orchid. Folks here in the comments can look it up. But boys are the orchid and girls are the dandelion—it’s boys who are more sensitive to their environments than girls.

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Excellent analysis, Meredith. (Unbelievable that the only other comment so far is from a mansplainer who purports to believe that women are susceptible to brainwashing and supporting 'mainstream ideology'.)

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