Quote Originally Posted by baudib View Post
JKDS, I don't get your resistance to this and you're being somewhat obtuse, which I find weird. Of course LEGOS or Rubik's Cube or whatever aren't hard-wired into our psychology but as Rilla said, LEGOS represent a class of things that interest boys. In previous generations or centuries, it would have been building blocks and puzzles or what not.

obviously team sports have been around for centuries and probably millennia.

Moreover, the existence of LEGOS and football is proof that something about us makes us like them, because we invented them.
Sure, lots of people like the things. Enough to create it in the first place. But women used to be encouraged to play with dolls, still are mostly, and men used to be encouraged to play sports, and still are mostly. Theres a ton of societal pressure going on there

Sexuality/gender is continuum; there are certainly gay men and women who love sports or other "masculine" activities as spectators and participants, but it's hard to take you seriously if you don't think that gay men or women are somewhat wired differently in their interest in these things. I'm guessing that gay men were given footballs and toy soldiers to play with as kids, not Julie Andrews albums.
Again, its possible genders are wired differently. Im not foreclosing that possibility. But I dont think you can affirmatively state this is the case given with what little knowledge on the subject we have. You cannot say that its not almost solely societal norms that are to blame.

I dont even know what to say about the gay kids thing. It sounds like you're trying to say that gay men were given footballs and rejected them for musicals...or that they arent interested in masculine things. Ill just point out that there are pro sports players who clearly dont fit that stereotype and walk away on that point.