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Building Boys Bulletin 4-12-21

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Boys will be boys?

Jennifer L.W. Fink
Apr 12, 2021
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The phrase “boys will be boys” has definitely fallen out of favor.

As Elizabeth Meyer, PhD (a white, female associate dean for teacher education at the University of Colorado-Boulder) wrote in a 2014 Psychology Today article,

The expression "boys will be boys" attempts to explain away aggressive behaviors that a small number of children exhibit by linking…

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