Reine it is hardly a conspiracy to make boys' lives miserable. Gender roles are designed to make society more efficient. Everyone knows their role, their place, knows what society expects of them. Follow the rules and you are accepted and rewarded. Following gender roles usually makes you happier. But there is a price to pay in such a black and white division between the sexes. Women know all about that, men do not except for the ones (ie us) who woke up one day and realized that it is ok to cross the gender divide.

Women rebelled against their gender role because it was too constrictive and it ended up robbing them of equality. Women did not fight against the gender system itself - women still want to feel feminine and men masculine.

Biological differences do exist and have an impact on how you develop. I am not disagreeing with you at all. But masculinity/femininity are social constructs and only have context within a social setting. They change from culture to culture and change over time. This is something you have to learn and copy and perfect to attain conformity and be rewarded. Remove society and masculinity/femininity becomes meaningless and irrelevant. It is like claiming men and women are different so this means one gender are better drivers or derives more pleasure from driving than the other etc. It is seeing differences because we expect them.

As for a theory stretching back thousands of years this has no bearing on its factual truth. Believing it does is merely flat earth syndrome. In fact any belief stretching back thousands of years is almost certainly wrong since it originates from a period of ignorance and superstition. And this is not speculation. This is why I suggested buying books covering this subject so you can read about the numerous studies that have been conducted into what are the real differences if any between the sexes.

Social gender division is broke. Feminism proved that it was an archaic superstition grounded on beliefs that males and females were fundamentally different. Similar to the idea that people of different ethnicity were different. Whether it was gender, race or religion, people were always using superficiality to claim fundamental differences. We all know white people think differently from black people......