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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like everything else, there's been an over correction. When I was in school girls did not perform as well as boys. Efforts were made to correct it and here we are now.
The girls on the run thing, etc  pisses me off too.

We have also run into teachers who clearly favor girls no matter what.
And bullying against boys is tolerated much more than bullying against girls. [/quote]

I have a boy and a girl and I hate that the school focuses so much time an attention on ‘girls only’ activities.  A[b]gree about Girls on the Run.  As if boys wouldn’t benefit from releasing some extra energy by training for a 5K and discussing issues.[/b]  [/quote]

There's a similar program for boys called Let Me Run (https://www.letmerun.org/). Like Girls on the Run, it's a running program and it has a curriculum - the one for Let Me Run is focused on teaching boys that there are lots of ways to be a man, that it's okay to show emotion, etc. So, basically, an anti-toxic masculinity program. But it needs parent volunteers to set it up and keep the program going, just like Girls on the Run does. So, if you're upset about Girls on the Run, you may want to look into starting a Let Me Run program at your kids' schools. 
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You're joking right? The parallel program of Let me Run would be a program that is anti toxic femininity (using looks as a weapon, gossiping, social gate keeping, weaponizing feelings) which girls on the run  is not.
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+1. Not sure how you can compare the two programs.  One is empowering the girls and the other is ensuring that the boys do appropriate things so as to not do anything naughty.[/quote]

Well said.[/quote]

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