Of course Ong stops well short of saying the girls and women play no role in the emerging masculine identities of boys and men, because girls and women usually do play a role.
However, because Ong saw himself as primarily focused on the contesting behavior of boys and women, he does not devote as much time and effort to examining the contesting behavior of girls and women.
Nevertheless, if boys and men establish their sense of a specifically masculine identity primarily through interactions with other boys and men, it would not be surprising if girls and women also establish their sense of a specifically feminine identity through their interactions with other girls and women.
In effect, the results of the different experiments designed by Stout and colleagues strike me as supporting this contention.
For the sake of brevity, I am going to refer to same-gender interaction and same-gender identifications.
For the sake of brevity, I am also going to say that we form our gender identities through our same-gender identifications.
So our gender identifications emerge from our same-gender identifications and our same-gender interactions.
Sounds straightforward enough, eh?
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