I read a article“Boys Will Be Boys”, written by Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb in my ESL class.

The first interesting idea in the article is that boys and girls have different characteristics in the way they behave. When I was a kid, I could not understand why boys act so offensively and why they seem to like sports more than girls do, so I used to prefer to play with girls. I remember that I and my friends liked to gossip about the way boys acted when we got together. However, now, I realized that it was because boys are likely to act actively and aggressively by the hormone.       The second idea that I am interested in is boys have homophobia when they are about 11, 12, 13 years old. I have a guy friend, whose name is Joseph. I have known him since I was 5 years old, and we had grown up together. We did really get along together, so we did everything together. We played card game, played with dolls, went shopping and chatted until late night. However, since he got into the middle school, he seemed not to want to hang out with me anymore. He didn’t like what I used to do with him, and he started to hang around with other boys. I was kind of broken mind at that time and I think I concerned a lot about the friendship between me and him. He is still my good friend, but actually I could not understand him until I read this article. I am really glad that now I can understand why he acted that way to me.