QUIT TRIVIALIZING WHAT YOUNG MEN ARE GOING THROUGH! |
You think men are two-dimensional cartoons. |
Just how old are you? You've been taking care of lazy men for centuries? I'm guessing you didn't do jack shit for anyone other than yourself. |
They want women to revert back to property instead of doing any work themselves. That's it. |
If you disagree with the comment, tell us why. |
Dropping out of school, escaping into gaming and porn, and whining about how they can’t get laid. I am all for figuring out ways to support all children, but blaming women for being selective about how they choose to date or marry isn’t the answer. We are raising kids who are going to be ready for the modern workforce, not to mention relationships that are partnerships. |
Being losers, sitting around their basement and playing with themselves? I’m sorry, we shouldn’t have to coddle young men and we shouldn’t have to live in fear of them. |
Those struggles still exist. |
I think it's really sad and wish they could be helped. But what do you propose we do to help them besides force women to be with them? |
Stop going to college and grad school and stop pursuing careers, so they’ll once again have to rely on men to put roofs over their heads. |
How is becoming aware of a problem "blaming women"? Defensive much? |
While my grandfather was nearly freezing to death in a fox hole in the Ardennes his wife was shacking up with another man back home. After everything he went through he was still not known to complain very much about anything. |
Said nobody ever. Except you of course. |
A middle-aged man with cancer once told me, "no one lights candles for us 50 year old white guys when we die". No one is worried about them and that's exactly why they need to be worried about. Suicide rates are far worse in this demographic than any other. |
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I think we need to be more intentional about how we raise boys. For the last generation or two, we’ve been increasingly thoughtful about how we raise girls—don’t focus on their looks; get them toys like legos that help them develop tech skills; encourage them to play sports and do debate so they aren’t shrinking violets. We give our girls boys names and buy them clothes from the boy’s department. But what about our boys? What are we doing to encourage them to be more nurturing/caring, more expressive with their emotions, more cooperative, more outgoing socially? Are we buying them dollhouses, signing them up for clubs that require cooperative communication, avoiding emphasizing their strength/stoicism, praising them for being helpful, nurturing, empathetic?
As much as “shrinking violet” disease was harmful to our girls, “strong and silent” disease is destroying our boys. We need to raise boys that will be helpmates and partners to the girls we are raising. And I will say it is damn tough. I thought counteracting society’s messages to girls would be hard but it really hasn’t been that bad. But the constraint stream of violent and sexist stuff directed at boys is just overwhelming. |