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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think parents are screwing up boys as a group, but I think we've socially handicapped boys and that leaves few avenues for raising boys.

If boys are not very good at sports, they get limited on one side by pressure to find other masculine activities, and penned in on the other side by people telling them not to be too loud or aggressive. In the middle is a lot of video games, YouTube, and isolation.

The show Adolescence explores this via a very dramatic situation (a boy who is violent) but I know many non violent, great boys who get stuck here as well.

We need a middle ground where boys can express masculinity without having to be radicalized by the right wing misogynists. You can be masculine without being violent or angry. You don't have to be emotional if that's not who you are or how you express yourself (you need to learn to be emotionally self aware but that's not the same as being emotive and talking about feelings all the time, which not everyone wants to do). You don't have to be athletic to be physically active or "manly."

Signed, 
Mom of girls [/quote]

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