Boys should be tough? Why?

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014038,00.html

Interesting article.  It talked about the benefits of being a "mama's boy."  Boys who are closer to their mothers tend to be more open emotionally and lead happier lives.  The gender roles are often very strict with fathers and sons.  Fathers want their sons to exhibit typically masculine activities, and therefore the boys are pressured to act a certain way.  They did a study and found that boys from all ethnic and racial groups tended to adopt masculine stereotypes at roughly the same rate. 

Despite the evolutionary psychology view that male and females are wired differently, many more believe that hypermasculine traits are adopted because of the influence of culture.  One aspect of cultural influence is, they believe, the aggressive, sarcastic, gun-toting superheroes of today. 

They also mention that it might be a backlash to the growing acceptance of homosexual men.  "There is an increased rigidity to gender stereotypes in the name of demarcating who is and who is not gay.  We have come to view fundamentally human attributes such as empathy, emotional skills and the desire for intimate relationships as being girlish or gay. They are not girlish or gay skills — they are human skills, or at least they should be." 'Nuff said.