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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a social worker who works with primarily middle schoolers. Your son sounds like so many kids I’ve known: developing identity within a family that has a strong political and cultural identity. It sounds like gender is really the area where his politics differ from the family, which makes sense I suppose since it sounds like his social experience has been the same as his sisters but for gender.

My recommendation to you is that you continue to talk with him as neutrally as you can about these opinions he is developing. He is young and is still thinking about it all. You want your voice and your family’s values to be at least as loud a voice as whatever MRA garbage he’s watching online.

I will say that when I read your post, I thought of my own brother, who was the youngest child in a family of outspoken political women. There were times when he was a teen when I know it was hard for him and my mom to relate to each other - my brother got super into fairly misogynist gangsta rap and violent video games whereas my mom is a radical feminist who disapproves of violence in general (and video games in general for that matter). She just kept talking to him and asking him questions about what he likes about XYZ or how he’s found ABC to help him in life. My brother is 35 now and he and my mom are very close and respect each other a great deal. They do not agree on absolutely everything, but their relationship is not damaged by these opposing values, as it were. [/quote]

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