Silly Boys

So we were watching this movie in Biology, called Gattaca or somthing. It's about how learning the entire human genome could cause like a million problems. In this movie, children are born invitro, and their parents get to choose every aspect of their genes. Well, there's this one family who has one child born normally, Vincent, and one child born through this genetic stuff, Anton. Well, the genetically superior child always picked on his older brother because everyone believed that he was this weak little thing who wouldn't amount to anything. Sometimes, the two boys would play chicken and see who could swim the farthest out into open water before turning back. For the first few times the genetically better child would win, but after working for years and gaining muscles and endurance, Vincent beat all odds and swam farther than Anton. Then, after Vincent gets into Gattaca with the help of some people, his brother challenges him again to a game of chicken to redeem himself.

This is where I get confused. See, this scene is late at night when the sea is tossing and turning and you can't see the shore when you get far enough out. I think it's safe to say that this competition was more than a little dangerous. It was just weird, if Vincent was strong enough to beat Anton before and get into Gattaca, then why did Anton feel the need to challenge him again in those awful conditions? Why couldn't he just let it go and say yes, in this one area, you are better than me? I don't know, I think it's a boy thing. They have to go out and do something dangerous in order to feel like they've accomplished something and truely won. For girls, it's like, oh hey that's dangerous and I could lose my life? Well, forget it then.

In reflection, boys are just silly and I have no idea why they feel like they have to prove themselves in the weirdest ways.