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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m grateful for all the neighbors helping neighbors activity I witnesses. This included sharing shovels pitching in to clear walk clear, get car out, walk the dogs, babysit while parents worked online.

Saw this from all ages and genders. but lots of teens stepping up.

Celebrate kindness! [/quote]

Sigh.  We’re just trying to celebrate our sons.  For once in their young lives, we’re trying to celebrate them.  These kids weren’t the ones who made life miserable for women all those years ago.  They just need something to help them feel good about being a boy.  Why is this so hard for people? [/quote]

Because this crisis for boys is manufactured and amplified by social media and it's a bunch of BS.  It's backlash for women and girls asking to be treated with respect and for men and boys to be responsible for their behavior.  If everyone just acted like a decent person we'd all be fine.  But we have to have something to agonize about.  [/quote]

If you are not currently raising a son, then your thoughts on this matter not because you have no idea what's actually going on.  I'm not on social media and I'm not sure why anyone thinks this is manufactured so those comments make no sense.  I'm the mom of a (sensitive, kind) boy who absolutely was/is impacted by society and school focusing almost exclusively on women and girls - this happened daily in his elementary school.  This is the same thing they did when I was in school, ie only focusing on the accomplishments and achievements of men.  Why we chose as a society to not balance things out but rather just repeat the mistake in the other direction is beyond me.  It's been disasterous in so many ways both academically and socially for many boys.  No culture war.  Just facts from people on the ground.  [/quote

I’m raising multiple kids, including sons (plural), and I know that the Boys Are Victims And Everything Has Swung Too Far BS is indeed BS.[/quote]

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