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[quote=Anonymous]I have a boy and a girl and I think there is enough worry to go around.

Toxic masculinity is alive and well.  The lane boys are supposed to fit into or they will get made fun of and socially rejected is much narrower than girls.  Early elementary education is set up for them to feel like failures.  There is also a level of hostility toward them (see it on this thread) that they know is there.  White boys in particular are simultaneously on the top of the pecking order in every way societally still, but also told they completely suck much of the time in popular culture.  No one feels bad for them and no one should, but when you're raising one you notice and they notice too.

Girls, does anyone need to even debate this?  Being a woman in this world is rough.  I have thought about this a lot and girls so clearly have their shit together more than boys, on average.  And then puberty.  Testosterone, brute strength of one sex over the other, and women having babies.  No turning back and it's never a fair fight and never will be. And they can be awful to each other in a way that will take your breath away.[/quote]

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