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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They get no attention or interest from guys at their respective schools and there are dozens of friends like them at each of their colleges. It's weird out there. [/quote]

Since roughly Middle School and continuing all the way through HS, the boys at DS's school have been cautioned against any appearance of sexual harassment towards girls.

This even has included explicit caution even about just asking a girl out (unless she wanted to be asked out and how does one know without asking?).

DS and his male friends find it all very confusing and have trouble discerning if there is any "safe harbor" where asking a girl out will not result in a harassment complaint.

Parents of boys at other schools tell us their sons are being given roughly the same messaging. So our case is no special or uncommon today. Of course, as with anything,  there will be both variation from school to school and some exceptions.

By contrast, the same school only warns girls to be scared of guys. There apparently is no such thing as "sexual harassment" from a gal toward a guy.

In times gone by, there was much less of this guidance to boys (in my day, the rule was "no touching" but approaching a girl verbally was fine).

Bottom line today is that girls/women ought not wait to be asked out. Smart ones will seize the initiative and initiate with boys/men they are interested in.  (Also, best to not be too subtle; many boys/men do not detect subtle.)[/quote]

Well done. Love the satire of the stereotypical conservative “Boy Dad”. 😂 [/quote]

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