I grew up roughhousing (for the record I am female). My husband and I both roughhouse with our children and yes when they are at their limit or we are at our limit the game ends and we move on to other things.

As a female engineer I was constantly told that we needed to break the gender-barriers to get more women into  STEM jobs. How could we make the world less "male" (use ballerinas instead of hockey pucks  or car accidents in physics textbooks was an actual suggestion)?  I would suggest it's not that the world was too "male" but that women like the author place more boundaries on female children. Teach them young not to act out of line, to be proper and quiet, to be submissive. Being loud, running free, rolling on the ground, taking risks that's for the boys. Mothers of course act appropriately as a role model leaving the men to be monsters (what a lesson).

Roughhousing should not be divided male/female or mother/father, this article has struck a nerve.