Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.