Why do women's preference for boys is more serious than that of men?

Some time ago, my daughter-in-law was a daughter, and Nantong's mother-in-law killed her granddaughter. Seeing this news, I can't help sighing that social progress can't save these ignorant people. The phenomenon of son preference has existed since ancient times. If traced back to the source, it probably comes from the end of matriarchal society and paternal society. In a patriarchal society, men can get more food, more economic status and rights because of their strength, and their status is naturally respected. In modern times, the gap between men and women has narrowed, and more and more women have gained respect and recognition. Why does this mother-in-law or another kind of person continue to maintain the imagination of son preference? There is a term in psychology called female identity, which can probably explain this phenomenon.

Feminine identity

Gender identity refers to everyone's understanding of their gender attributes and gender roles. Men will have male identity and women will have female identity. But there are also many people who have problems with their gender identity, so there will be problems. For example, transgender people are physically one gender and psychologically another, so they finally choose to change their physical gender through surgery and unify their physical gender and psychological gender. Gender identity first began at the age of two or three, and it didn't begin to have gender differences until adolescence, eventually forming an identity lane.

Everyone began to realize the gender problem from the attitude of parents and others to him. In this process, female identity is often more complicated than male identity. For men, when they first get close to their mothers, they will imitate the behavior of women. Later, after the Oedipus complex of 3-5 years old, the contact with his father increased, and men felt more powerful. They gradually realize that as their own male identity, there will be a solid male trait in their hearts. At first, women identified with their mothers, but when they reached the complex of loving their fathers, they had to identify with their fathers, and then they had to return to identify with their mothers until puberty, and finally formed female identity. There is one more hurdle than men, so it is more difficult for women to finally form female identity. And men's identity will exist more in women's psychological process.

From the perspective of women's identity, it may be easier to understand why so many women prefer boys to girls, because the power and role of men have occupied the psychological development process.