On boys and girls....

Today I conducted a Picture comprehension activity fr the 11 year olds. The outcome was indeed interesting.

i showed them a picture of two white horses, one horse looked a little bigger while the other smaller one had a carrot in its mouth. I gave the children about 15 minutes to construct a story on the given picture.

There were 4 girls and 4 boys in the class.

Results: Two girls made a story of a male horse marrying a female horse, having children etc. The other two girls created a story on friendship and sharing.

Boys version- One gave a gory story of the horses being kidnapped and they murder their attacker and finally escape. Two boys talked on friendship but with fights and violence involved.

The fourth boy talked of the small horse disobeying the mother horse and ending up in the wrong peer group and how the small horse lies, gets into fights and his money is stolen etc..

So what is it that you make out of this? Would you agree that if women had been heasds of nations the World Wars and Nazism would have been averted?