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“Together, we are raising the bar as to what it takes to raise boys.”
And yet, by measuring boys’ behavior against girls, boys are being taught that they are abnormal and need to be pumped full of drugs like Ritalin in order to be normal and succeed. This isn’t raising a bar. It’s demeaning. It’s willful ignorance and disgusting complacency on the part of parents and the education system to which we trust our boys.
Very astute, T. Well, not actually, because every heterosexual guy knows it, knows what is being done to us, but sill afraid to speak up and out, still shackled in that box. Problem is that we are being lifted out of one, and right back into another, one even worse then the last for us. There is only one problem here, a lack of male voice, our voice. the heterosexual male has a target on his back, and everyone is taking their shot. Not acceptable at all. Until we find that voice, it will continue. Ae will be subjected to… Read more »
One more point. Look at the mem. We are declaring gender neutrality while displaying one character in pants, the other in a dress….defined by gender. Likewise, are we teaching women to be more masculine, not to wear dresses, make-up, to stop being emotional to the point of drama queen (and we know damn right well that we see that in more then a few women), or is it only us that are under attack. Is “gender neutral” code for, abandon your toxic masculinity and become a girl? Is it just another prevarication, not unlike the argument that birth control is… Read more »
what is the percentage, by gender, that are willing to pay for a date, open a door, pull out a chair?
So what we are saying here is that men are the one’s that have arrived, are not actually broken….and its women that need to get there?
Sorry, had to, like a mountain there for the climbing…