Is Growing Up Tougher For Boy Than Girls By Sarah Glazer

Everything happens for a reason. When someone gets upset over something not going their way, that is usually what someone else will tell them. For example, Sandy wants a brand new Dodge Challenger. She has saved and saved to go buy that car and then her water well at her house breaks and needs to be completely redone. Now all her savings went to fixing her well and she cannot afford the new vehicle. Instead of being upset and grumpy over not being able to buy the car, Sandy just shrugs it off and deals with it. That is stoicism. Stoicism is not worrying about things that cannot be changed. Stoics are indifferent to pain and pleasure. They take the hands they are dealt and do not complain about it. As time has progress people have created theories, like the strain theory, the social learning theory, and the social disorganization theory, to explain people’s behaviors. This especially goes for explaining why people commit crimes, whether they decide to or not. In addition to the theories mentioned above, there are also ethical theories like, hedonism, ethical egoism, and stoicism. Ethical theories explain people’s behavior relative to their beliefs, instead of external reasoning. What Happens, Happens
Glazer’s exact quote is, “just try to get your adolescent son to complete a homework assignment where he has to discuss his feelings about a work of fiction” (para. 26). Overall, Glazer’s article talks about how boys would be better off if they were able to express themselves more, like girls do, and not be so stoic (Glazer, 1999). This is an example of stoicism because boys try to not show feelings to the outside world, therefore they tend to have a seemingly indifferent stance to things that happen around them. Usually, if they are going to express themselves, it ends up being in