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[quote=Anonymous]Wow I have a boy and a girl and I worry about them both a lot, largely what they will experience from other boys/men more than from women but there’s some of that too. My daughter has ADHD and even medicated struggles to sit through a day at school and the idea of a girl who is “wild” still infuriates people beyond what you would believe. My son doesn’t have ADHD and so far can behave according to teacher expectations but is constantly confused by being told x is for boys or so and so made fun of me because I wore the friendship bracelet my female friend made for me. There are still a lot of ignorant people teaching their kids this stuff. I worry about who my son will become, that he’ll decide it is easier to join in with some of the really nasty toxicity masculinity that I see happening in kids just a few years older than him. I worry about what we’ve modeled in a relationship where yes mom works but she also runs the house and dad just works a LOT and shows up when he wants and people praise him for taking his own child to a single doctors appointment. As my kids get older I do feel like I’m part of the problem.

But all of that pales in comparison to how afraid I am for my daughter to face sexual harassment and domestic violence and if you think those are remote fears you are in for a shock. [/quote]

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