“Gender defined every generation until Gen X,” one reader argues. “It has been both challenging and wonderful to see those barriers become more permeable.” Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Gallery Stock December 19, 2023, 12:46 PM ET Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here. Last week, I asked for your thoughts on all-male and all-female social spaces. Replies have been edited for length and clarity. Amy was a Girl Scout as a kid and is now a leader of her 7-year-old daughter’s troop. She solicited her daughter’s opinion: She said: “I love it! I love that it is only girls. I hope Girl Scouts lasts forever and stays just girls.” The gist was that boys talk loudly all at once, over one another, but in a single-gender space she and her friends can listen to the adult, talk amongst themselves, and respond. At 7 she is aware of the …