To try to be fair, life is often more about obeying arbitrary rules than mastering certain subjects. Many of the things named in the article are important life skills that should be taught and encouraged.
My question would be: "why do females have a head-start in self-restraint, and why do males fail to catch up quickly?"
I suspect much of the answer could be cultural.
I suspect much of the answer could be genetic. Males in primate species tend to be more aggressive and have less "self-restraint".
I'm not saying I agree that women have a ~subservient nature~, just that the way comments ended up being laid out really struck me.
I'm certainly willing to reconsider my views, and even conceded the possible incorrectness of my beliefs in my other post which you linked.
But, I think there's a big difference in both meaning and tone between "self-restraint" and "subservience", which is (part of) why I had objected to the other post.
I had a huge problem with how the point was presented: use of a derogatory adjective, opinions as fact ("school sucks" coupled with "they like it"), "blow [my] brains out", etc. Came across as angry injust blame, to me, which is why I said it was "off the rails". It's not reasonable or fair to predicate an argument on an exaggerated and probably sexist set of statements.
Whereas contrasting aggressiveness against self-restraint (with very vague sources cited, at least) and leaving room for uncertainty as in GP at least leaves room to consider respective advantages and disadvantages of both aspects, instead of painting a "female" aspect with an entirely negative light, as in your link's parent.
This guy said it better than I did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8338243
The downside of all this is that it promotes disparate outcomes for those who come from privileged backgrounds and those who come from more ordinary ones. I'm currently attending an "elite" college and there seems to be a pretty clear distinction between job placement and family status.
School sucks and boys feel that more acutely, is the long and short of it in my view. Girls tend to tolerate or even like it because subservience is more in their nature. Women also tend to like moderate status corporate drone jobs that make a lot of men want to blow their brains out.
Wow, I agreed with the first half of what you said, but you really started going off the rails here.
1 No citations given.
2 "Subservience" is unlikely to be a genetic trait, which would mean you're engaging in negative reinforcement of a culturally-imposed patriarchal "value" for women to hold.
Even if subservience is a genetic trait, it's hardly reasonable to accuse someone of possessing it.
Subservience is forced, has been forced, due to biology, until the very recent past. Women could not even control having children until birth control. No one likes "corporate drone" jobs. No one likes being a servant or a slave either. Sometimes you take what you can get at the time just to survive.