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Teen boys skewing more conservative?
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Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| I think what we have been seeing is a shift away from white males always getting their way and white makes are scared. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
What rights of his are missing or at risk? |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
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? |
Anonymous
Yes, this. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
+1 When the Covid lockdown started my son was in 4th grade and I remember sitting in on a lesson with him in which the teacher told the class that for the discussion the white boys just had to listen and were not allowed to contribute. It was about diversity or something, I don’t remember exactly. But he (naturally) was very upset by this, and I was absolutely shocked. He was 10 years old, being told his opinion didn’t matter because of his sex and the color of his skin. I wouldn’t say he is conservative, but he is certainly not liberal. If anything, I would describe him (and myself) as moderate. But it’s undeniable that the rhetoric coming from progressives has a lot of “white man bad” - I am even more surprised that in the past several years they have gone all in by including “white women bad”, especially with all the “karen” BS. |
Anonymous
But this isn’t true. No child has listened to anything for decades. Because they’re not decades old. You are advocating for, essentially, mistreatment of innocent white children NOW because of the mistreatment of non-white children before they were even born. It’s insane. |
Anonymous
| No one likes to see their power and influence abate. These teen boys are parroting what they hear from podcasts/social media where men in their 20s and 30s are realizing their days to do what they please and have things handed to them because they are men may be over. They are fighting that, tooth and nail. Thus, the "Your body, my choice" mantra that is being repeated, ad nauseam, in these circles. We are white, privileged, and have a 15 YO DS, and we stress that he is no more or less important than any other human being on this earth. He needs to use his privilege to speak up when others may be reluctant too. He's pretty disgusted by all the anti-woman rhetoric. |
Anonymous
Having to read a book written by a woman or a black person is mistreatment? |
Anonymous
+1,000,000% And as a straight, white woman I feel the same way. I’m labeled a “Karen” and made to feel like a terrible person just for existing |