Update: I was telling my mom about this whole gender thing last night (but not mentioning what she said at the library), and she said, "You might think that, but it's something chemical. I thought you'd have trucks and Alex would have dolls, but you can't stop it. No matter what you do, boys just make every stick into a gun!" So then I told her what she had said. "You also didn't point out anything else that he was really into, like the swing, either." She was shocked...
You should read Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine. Her thesis is that society has gendered us, and that all the science out there about differences between men and women is completely false. I don't completely agree with her, but I could see a lot of her points, especially in situations like the one you mentioned. (Since LJ is being weird, I'll post this on G+ too).
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