Boys singing VS Girls Singing

When girls are little, they sing like angels! They're perfect on pitch, melody, and they sound so sweet! It makes me cry how adorable they are! Sing, little females, SING! Fill my days with thine rapturous melody! Honey, we HAVE to get her some singing lessons!!!!

Whereas, when BOYS are little, they sing like toads. It's so annoying. Parents have constantly got to tell their little boys to SHUSH, be QUIET, and I've had ENOUGH of the Scooby-Doo theme song! Heavens to Gretchen Almighty, if you're going to sing, we can staple foam on the walls of our coat closet to make it soundproof and throw you in there when you start singing! It's a huge relief for grown people everywhere when little boys reach the age when they realize that they can't sing, that they shouldn't sing, and no one can love a boy who sings. And everyone HATES it when boys sing. So they stay quiet.

Meanwhile, all the little girls are singing karaoke at Christmas parties and Justin Beiber at home. If their brothers are trying to do homework or read or watch something on TV, and their little sister is singing super high and super pretty but still trying to imitate Avril Lavigne, and their brothers ask in the nicest way possible that she please shut her trap, she reacts as though she's been slapped. She tells her parents, who come out and start screaming at her brother(s) "How COULD you?!?!?! I for one, LOVE her singing! Don't EVER tell anyone to stop singing! A beautiful voice is a gift!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1! Let her share it with you!!!!!!!!!"

Later, one of the brothers starts singing a song stuck in his head. Then the parents tell him, with no small amount of disrespect, "Shut up. I'm trying to do something that doesn't involve your hideous voice."

...Okay, I might be exaggerating a little. But all this is from my own personal experience. As is this:

Let's say that one of the boys wants to be a singer when he gets a little bit older. Well guess what? Now the biggest obstacle they've got to overcome is the fear of singing. Their voice gets choked up when they try to sing in front of someone else. They don't even try to sing 'good' like the girls do. They'll mess up. And mostly it's not even a consious decision- it's embedded in their sub-craniums. Don't sing. You suck. Don't sing.

And chances are, that in the time they were 4 years old to however old they are then, they have hardly sung. They don't even know the basics. They don't know how to control their vocal chords to make a certain sound. It's very very hard. There's noise coming out of them that hasn't come out in years, if at all. And there's no freaking way they're singing in front of someone else.


AGGGGHHHHHHH

Thank you. That is all.