Little Girls Flirt and Manipulate, and a Clingy Girl Is Fishing for Male Attention
Little girls flirt and manipulate; little boys brag.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2018, from Why Children Matter, cited to the source.
Always remember that boys and girls run on different kinds of fuel. Certain things work for both of them, but boys run on respect-fuel and girls run on love-fuel. Little girls flirt and manipulate; little boys brag. […] The more insecure she is about it, the more she needs attention, and the more she needs attention and love, the more she fishes for male attention. For a long time she’s a nuisance, but then all of sudden she turns thirteen and magically guys start paying attention. Now she has something to negotiate with and many girls are just clueless about what’s happening.