Comments on: Jon Stewart Marvels at the Differences Between Boys and Girls

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:17:23 +0000

Growing up, my brother and I played the same roles, except we flipped them. My brother would spend hours in front of the mirror with dresses and barbies while I would spend hours outside with dirt. We have both since found a happy medium.

By: Mia

Mia — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:20:30 +0000

I think boys, and girls can be into both things, but naturally-the hormones win and boys tend to be geared towards more testosterone driven actives than girls, and visa versa.

My brother, and I were very close growing up, and even today-I’ve always had all guy friends just because I get along with guys better than girls. I enjoyed sports, and video games that dealt with car races and fighting, but I still very much loved playing/taking care of my baby dolls, barbies, playing house, and having a “kitchen” (plastic toy food), where my brother loved karate, fencing, and toy guns (like the nerf guns from the 90′s).

By: Elle 711

Elle 711 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:44:11 +0000

I love Jon Stewart. If I don’t get a fix of JS every day it’s just not right. I grew up an only child but played with tons of neighborhood kids. The boys were always playing army and jumping off the roof of my house. Us girls were in the backyard playing dress up. I did jump off the house a couple of times and could usually be found up a tree but the gender differences were fairly clear even then.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:40:53 +0000

I think that one of the reasons why eldest children are different from the rest of the children a family has is that by the time the second one arrives, parents have fewer illusions about their role. We were determined that our older son wasn’t going to be given toy guns (yeah, 20 years later it sounds ridiculous to me, too), but not only did he become the neighborhood pest (“I see your gun?” “I wanna play your gun”) but everything imaginable “became” a gun. The day he pointed a piece of toast at me (and fired it), I gave up. People have remarked since my sons were tiny that they couldn’t be more different, but I always ask them, “Would your daughter prefer to wrestle than eat? Does she stand on the coffee table with a “sword” in one hand and a “rifle” in the other, bellowing indecipherable battle cries?” There is something about testosterone that I just would not have believed until I had boys…

By: taegan

taegan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:34:11 +0000

It’s great to hear him talk about his kids. There are some who are very stereotypical, but also at times step out of the box.

Love Jon S

By: Stephany

Stephany — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:21:51 +0000

Yeah, my brother and I were definitely stereotypical kids. My brother was into his action figures and video games and being messy and dirty while I was into my Barbie dolls and princess movies and hated being messy and dirty. Not to say that I didn’t venture into the world of action figures every once in a while and that I didn’t force my brother to play Barbies with me.

By: UggaMugga.com

UggaMugga.com — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:39:35 +0000

My son and daughter do everything together: play Star Wars, take their baby dolls to the doctor, set up the doll house, make guns out of Legos and hide and shoot from each other and bake in their toy kitchen. Having said that, my son is a boy through and through and my daughter will never refuse tights and a dress. They’re both very well-rounded, but also obviously wired to be a boy and a girl. Can’t wait to see how their baby sister fits in the mix in a year!

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:31:09 +0000

When I was little I was very much a tomboy, I played outside all day, shared a room with my brother, watched all the super-hero tv shows. But as I got older and went to school and started spending more time with girls I got a lot more girly, to the point where anyone would laugh in my face if I tried to tell them I was a tomboy when I was little. There are kids who are influenced by their environment in situations like these, but there are also tons of kids for who it just seems to be predetermined genetically. I love Jon’s stories about his kids, they’re always so cute!

By: Eliza

Eliza — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:41:23 +0000

Too funny! He always tells the funniest anecdotes about his kids!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:26:37 +0000

I shared a room with my brothers till I was 12, and I loved Barbies and babies, but I was then and still am now, a jeans girl. I loved superheroes, and comic books, and power rangers and stuff like that. I think it just depends on the personality.