Growing up, everyone is taught that boys are stronger than girls.  Boys are faster than girls.  Boys are more athletic than girls.  Boys can play sports better than girls.  That is "just the way things are."  I didn't know the terms "brute facts" and "social facts" growing up, but the statement that boys are stronger than girls has always been a brute fact in my mind.  It was an unchangable thing about society that everyone knew about.  When anyone needs someone to do some heavy lifting, they will ask the boys in the room.  If a girls' team and a boys' team played each other in any sport, everyone would bet on the boys' team to win.  However, after learning these terms and reading certain articles in this class, I'm realizing that that's not really the case.  Although the norm tells us that girls are weaker, that is not a concrete fact.  There are girls out there who are stronger than most boys.  There are feminine boys out there who wouldn't be considered strong at all.  And who are the "boys" really?  We're even learning that gender isn't a brute fact. So it's not accurate so say that boys are always stronger than girls because there are exceptions everywhere.  This can now be considered a social fact, along with many other things in our society.  We should no longer think less of girls and consider them weaker because society tells us to because a lot of the time it's just not true.  I'm glad that this class is changing my perspective on this and other "facts" in our society because I never really agreed that boys are stronger than us anyway, and now I don't have to blindly accept it like I did in the past.