Teen boys skewing more conservative?

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White pride vote trump for life

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Toxic masculinity and sexism.

Really?

So, why are teen girls skewing more progressive? I would say because of the toxic feminism that they have been lied to about for their entire lives.

I have a teen girl and my impression is that girls are bifurcating into a very progressive, feminist group and another that is pretty trad. There are some very progressive boys as well but it is a small percentage. It is more equally split among girls.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Toxic masculinity and sexism.

Really?

So, why are teen girls skewing more progressive? I would say because of the toxic feminism that they have been lied to about for their entire lives.

I have a teen girl and my impression is that girls are bifurcating into a very progressive, feminist group and another that is pretty trad. There are some very progressive boys as well but it is a small percentage. It is more equally split among girls.

NP. It’s almost as if there’s this pervasive force that’s actively trying to divvy people up into neat little categories and pit them against each other. Get their attention, convince them they’re “expressing themselves,” make them angry, sell them stuff, make money.

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Your kids do not have to be carbon copies of you and be proud you raised them to have their own views. Do you have the exact same views as your parents? DCUM is filled with adults complaining about the political views of their parents. Neither of your kids are old enough to vote anyway.

I have two teens. One is much more conservative than me and one is much more liberal. I am proud that I have raised strong minded children that can form their own opinions. We have a strict rule that everyone must respect each other and I like when they can talk about their difference of opinion. It’s okay. I often do not agree with either of them. That’s okay too.

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11:12 and I will say listening to my son, he feels the world and especially school is against him. He really believes that now. Some of your sons may feel the same. He doesn’t want to take away any rights from women. He just wants to make sure he has rights too.

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Anonymous wrote:11:12 and I will say listening to my son, he feels the world and especially school is against him. He really believes that now. Some of your sons may feel the same. He doesn’t want to take away any rights from women. He just wants to make sure he has rights too.

Why does he feel school is against him? Colleges are bending over backwards to get boys to enroll these days. He has a leg up already.

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I think what we have been seeing is a shift away from white males always getting their way and white makes are scared.

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For those of you who think young men are feeling alienated and demonized by focus on marginalized groups - how do we, as parents, make them feel valued as part of a larger whole rather than reinforcing splits between different groups? My work relates to American history, so I talk to my kids about the diversity of the abolitionist and civil rights movements and how white people like us have always had choices, we aren't put on "sides" based on the colors of our skin. But I don't really know what resonates.

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Anonymous wrote:11:12 and I will say listening to my son, he feels the world and especially school is against him. He really believes that now. Some of your sons may feel the same. He doesn’t want to take away any rights from women. He just wants to make sure he has rights too.

What rights of his are missing or at risk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11:12 and I will say listening to my son, he feels the world and especially school is against him. He really believes that now. Some of your sons may feel the same. He doesn’t want to take away any rights from women. He just wants to make sure he has rights too.

What rights of his are missing or at risk?

It’s his perception. It’s the perception of a teen boy and how many feel. They have gone through years of school and sat through of the lessons now focused on all of the SEL stuff. We cant tell them how to feel.

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Anonymous wrote:My boys are 15 and 17 and they, and all of their friends, seem to be right of their parents. They claim that “everyone” was excited about the Trump victory.

They’ve been told for years that they need to apologize for their privilege and their unconscious bias. Unlike the boys of my generation that made off-colored jokes, they live in fear of unintentionally offending someone and being cancelled while they watch the black kids call each other the n-word and make white boy jokes. They noted in middle school that their girl friends weren’t allowed to wear nail polish or makeup to school but no one said anything when the trans kinds did so. The LGBTQ+ and diverse kids are celebrated while they’re made to feel like the boogeyman. Every book they read in English class is about the struggles of some maligned group- they never read books in school that they can relate to.

Yes, we need to address the wrongs of our country’s past, but we need to do so in a way that doesn’t repeat those wrongs by making young white, Hispanic and Asian straight males feel like they’re now being treated unfairly. I fear that the Democratic party has lost a generation of male voters by prioritizing DEI and trans rights over crime, national safety and jobs.

-Mom who voted for Obama twice, Hillary, Biden and now, reluctantly, Trump. I know several friends who voted for a Republican for the first time this election.

You are spot on.

[Anonymous]

This is very much not my experience with my own young teen boy. He is deeply frustrated with lots of things, but hasn't leaned conservative in response. Perhaps it is his friend group or school?

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Anonymous wrote:Joe Rogens podcast is their bible

Yes, this.

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I'm not sure why this phenomenon is a surprise to anyone. Dems have no one to blame but themselves. Eventually, being told over and over that they are the reason for all the problems of the world, that they don't deserve their privilege, that they 'owe' other people some kind of due for just being white, or wealthy, or straight, or whatever, is going to backfire. These kids look around and go hey wait, this isn't fair. I have no doubt this will backfire on this forum as I've very rarely seen introspection on the part of democrats. Which is fine, stay obstinate and unmoving, but don't be surprised when nothing changes or people move even more to the right.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:11:12 and I will say listening to my son, he feels the world and especially school is against him. He really believes that now. Some of your sons may feel the same. He doesn’t want to take away any rights from women. He just wants to make sure he has rights too.

What rights of his are missing or at risk?

It’s his perception. It’s the perception of a teen boy and how many feel. They have gone through years of school and sat through of the lessons now focused on all of the SEL stuff. We cant tell them how to feel.

I get that. I do. But the reason schools have swung so far in that direction is because so many non-white, non-boys have gone through decades of sitting through lessons focused on white men. They have to at least be aware of that. If they’d been born at a different time, they’d be sitting pretty, blissfully unaware of their privilege. But they weren’t, and this is their period in history to live through.

I am a parent of a white teen boy, fwiw, and I don’t want to erase the accomplishments of all those white men that came before, but the hope is that things can settle in a stable medium where everyone feels valued and respected.