Question. I don't have kids.

[leftyladyfrommo]

Are little boys still taught the importance of being a team player?

Are men more likely to just go along with the team?

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I don't know. Girls weren't raised with that 1 for all,

all for 1 stuff. I don't think I have ever been on a team.

I just wondered because it seems to be women who aren't afraid to take this mob on.

[MineralMan]

3. Yes. Children get taught such things, both boys and girls.

Some take that lesson literally. Others do not. One hopes they are also taught to do the right thing, not just follow the crowd. I got that lesson, too. Everyone's different.

[maxsolomon]

4. Empathy is innate to many men. I'm one, to a fault.

It can also be taught ("groomed" ), so you're at least aware you are expected to have it. My stepson is one, but he got it, eventually.

In some people, it doesn't stick - they grow resentments that limit their empathy to their in-group.

And some people are sociopaths.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Being a team player doesn't mean "just going along with the team".

It means doing everything you personally can to help insure the team’s success. It means doing your best, and also helping others to perform at their best level, as well.

I don’t think it’s the same as “going along with the crowd”, which is something my mother must have warned me about at least a thousand times.

[usonian]

6. It's pretty complex. Might want a psychologist to chime in.

IMO!

We have a spectrum of potentialities, any of which can be fed or starved, from empathy/team cooperation, to rugged individualism, to slavish co-dependence. And regarding the team spirit, it can be narrowed (manipulated?) to smaller identity groups from more global identity.

Just my observation. We are complex beings. Hopefully motivated by good examples. But that's not always the case.