Anonymous wrote:The posters who think boys need extra head pats are future nightmare MILs. 😉

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Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter shoveled neighborhood driveways this week, too!

Doesn’t count! She should stop taking away opportunities for buys and get back to making muffins!

Stop being so sexist and ruining a positive, uplifting thread.

Start your own thread

There’s nothing uplifting about celebrating only boys for doing work that girls are also doing. Go back to the 1950s where you belong

Can you please start your own thread?

This is supposed to be a positive, uplifting thread.

Your repeated posting and hate for young men is ruining this thread.

The hate for young men is imaginary. We are calling out boy moms for being what they always are, annoying drama queens who make sh*t up to bring attention to themselves and their kids. Vomit

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teenage girl, and I’ve been out shoveling in these streets! No hate to OP but why the pointless gendering? We’re all working hard here!

If I went to Science Olympiad, and posted a thread gushing about how impressed I was with the ingenuity, intelligence, organization and leadership of all the young ladies there at the STEM competition, I suspect not one of you would be repeatedly piling on calling the compliment misogynistic, sexist, anti male or yelling that "boys did good at Science Olympiad too" or "Why are you only complimenting girls you sexist pig?"

There are those kind of positive girl power threads all the time, and tons of negative threads that are overtly anti young men. There are constant comments and threads calling teen boys lazy, aimless, bad at school, and predators.

This forum repeatedly calls introverted boys as lazy good for nothings obsessed with video games, and involved athletic boys toxic and too immersed in the bro culture.

This past week, boys and young men everywhere happily and selflessly defied all these negative stereotypes pushed by so many women, including many moms. They helped their communities everywhere, clearing driveways and sidewalks 2-3x quicker than the adults out there shoveling, and overwhelmingly were the bulk of people clearing ice earlier in the week.

Yet there is a (perhaps small) group of women here and on neighborhood fb pages, who can't stand seeing the young men complimented for anything not even for multiple days of hard labor in biting cold that provided significant positive impacts to their neighbors and community, at a level and result far bigger than anyone else.

I guarantee that if all those thousands of teen boys decided to stay inside sitting on their butts scrolling youtube and playing video games, instead of going out and shoveling everywhere, that many, many neighbirhoods would still be covered in ice.

It is not sexist or misogynistic to for once give credit to our young men for overwhelmingly stepping up and taking care of their communities and neighbors.

It is sexist and misogynistic to get offended at the mere mention of boys receiving something so simple as a thank you from their community for a job well done.

i just posted above before I read your comment. Here, here. I'm guessing, for the purposes of this thread, that people either have a son and "get it" or don't have a son and don't "get it". There's no way to explain why this is so important and feels so meaningful to those of us with sons so we'll just celebrate with a wink and a nod to each other.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teenage girl, and I’ve been out shoveling in these streets! No hate to OP but why the pointless gendering? We’re all working hard here!

If I went to Science Olympiad, and posted a thread gushing about how impressed I was with the ingenuity, intelligence, organization and leadership of all the young ladies there at the STEM competition, I suspect not one of you would be repeatedly piling on calling the compliment misogynistic, sexist, anti male or yelling that "boys did good at Science Olympiad too" or "Why are you only complimenting girls you sexist pig?"

There are those kind of positive girl power threads all the time, and tons of negative threads that are overtly anti young men. There are constant comments and threads calling teen boys lazy, aimless, bad at school, and predators.

This forum repeatedly calls introverted boys as lazy good for nothings obsessed with video games, and involved athletic boys toxic and too immersed in the bro culture.

This past week, boys and young men everywhere happily and selflessly defied all these negative stereotypes pushed by so many women, including many moms. They helped their communities everywhere, clearing driveways and sidewalks 2-3x quicker than the adults out there shoveling, and overwhelmingly were the bulk of people clearing ice earlier in the week.

Yet there is a (perhaps small) group of women here and on neighborhood fb pages, who can't stand seeing the young men complimented for anything not even for multiple days of hard labor in biting cold that provided significant positive impacts to their neighbors and community, at a level and result far bigger than anyone else.

I guarantee that if all those thousands of teen boys decided to stay inside sitting on their butts scrolling youtube and playing video games, instead of going out and shoveling everywhere, that many, many neighbirhoods would still be covered in ice.

It is not sexist or misogynistic to for once give credit to our young men for overwhelmingly stepping up and taking care of their communities and neighbors.

It is sexist and misogynistic to get offended at the mere mention of boys receiving something so simple as a thank you from their community for a job well done.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a teenage girl, and I’ve been out shoveling in these streets! No hate to OP but why the pointless gendering? We’re all working hard here!

If I went to Science Olympiad, and posted a thread gushing about how impressed I was with the ingenuity, intelligence, organization and leadership of all the young ladies there at the STEM competition, I suspect not one of you would be repeatedly piling on calling the compliment misogynistic, sexist, anti male or yelling that "boys did good at Science Olympiad too" or "Why are you only complimenting girls you sexist pig?"

There are those kind of positive girl power threads all the time, and tons of negative threads that are overtly anti young men. There are constant comments and threads calling teen boys lazy, aimless, bad at school, and predators.

This forum repeatedly calls introverted boys as lazy good for nothings obsessed with video games, and involved athletic boys toxic and too immersed in the bro culture.

This past week, boys and young men everywhere happily and selflessly defied all these negative stereotypes pushed by so many women, including many moms. They helped their communities everywhere, clearing driveways and sidewalks 2-3x quicker than the adults out there shoveling, and overwhelmingly were the bulk of people clearing ice earlier in the week.

Yet there is a (perhaps small) group of women here and on neighborhood fb pages, who can't stand seeing the young men complimented for anything not even for multiple days of hard labor in biting cold that provided significant positive impacts to their neighbors and community, at a level and result far bigger than anyone else.

I guarantee that if all those thousands of teen boys decided to stay inside sitting on their butts scrolling youtube and playing video games, instead of going out and shoveling everywhere, that many, many neighbirhoods would still be covered in ice.

It is not sexist or misogynistic to for once give credit to our young men for overwhelmingly stepping up and taking care of their communities and neighbors.

It is sexist and misogynistic to get offended at the mere mention of boys receiving something so simple as a thank you from their community for a job well done.

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Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter shoveled neighborhood driveways this week, too!

Doesn’t count! She should stop taking away opportunities for buys and get back to making muffins!

Stop being so sexist and ruining a positive, uplifting thread.

Start your own thread

There’s nothing uplifting about celebrating only boys for doing work that girls are also doing. Go back to the 1950s where you belong

Can you please start your own thread?

This is supposed to be a positive, uplifting thread.

Your repeated posting and hate for young men is ruining this thread.

The hate for young men is imaginary. We are calling out boy moms for being what they always are, annoying drama queens who make sh*t up to bring attention to themselves and their kids. Vomit

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Anonymous wrote:I’m grateful for all the neighbors helping neighbors activity I witnesses. This included sharing shovels pitching in to clear walk clear, get car out, walk the dogs, babysit while parents worked online.

Saw this from all ages and genders. but lots of teens stepping up.

Celebrate kindness!

Sigh. We’re just trying to celebrate our sons. For once in their young lives, we’re trying to celebrate them. These kids weren’t the ones who made life miserable for women all those years ago. They just need something to help them feel good about being a boy. Why is this so hard for people?

Because this crisis for boys is manufactured and amplified by social media and it's a bunch of BS. It's backlash for women and girls asking to be treated with respect and for men and boys to be responsible for their behavior. If everyone just acted like a decent person we'd all be fine. But we have to have something to agonize about.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teenage girl, and I’ve been out shoveling in these streets! No hate to OP but why the pointless gendering? We’re all working hard here!

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Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter shoveled neighborhood driveways this week, too!

Doesn’t count! She should stop taking away opportunities for buys and get back to making muffins!

Stop being so sexist and ruining a positive, uplifting thread.

Start your own thread

There’s nothing uplifting about celebrating only boys for doing work that girls are also doing. Go back to the 1950s where you belong

Can you please start your own thread?

This is supposed to be a positive, uplifting thread.

Your repeated posting and hate for young men is ruining this thread.

The hate for young men is imaginary. We are calling out boy moms for being what they always are, annoying drama queens who make sh*t up to bring attention to themselves and their kids. Vomit

I suspect it is less of a "we" thing and more like 1 or 2 of you posting repeatedly because you don't like to hear positive things about young men.

Please. I have teens who shoveled (male and female) and the thought that only one group needs a shoutout is condescending as heck.

+1 Op is a misogynist troll.

I think the only misogynistic trolls are the ones that disdain young men so much that they are incensed and offended at anything expressing gratitude to boys or recognizing them in a positive way.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are some people in this forum just the worst lol.

Girl mom here and I see nothing wrong with celebrating these boys stepping in to help. Sure a few girls did too but it’s what about ism to act like it’s not mostly boys. Physically young men just have the arm and overall body strength to do it without injury or strain and most women/girls cannot. This is biology. I’m glad many stepped up.

Biologically young girls are not weaker than boys in middle school, in high school the difference is minimal.

It’s not until college and adulthood that the difference becomes extremely different.

The idea that a middle school or high school girl cannot shovel is insane.

And I do not find in our neighborhood that it was more boys than girls. And since you are a girl mom, can you get your girls out there shoveling next time.

Sorry, but you are just factually and biologically wrong.

Nope. I know plenty of girls way stronger than their male friends. Also, a 16 you girls is markedly stronger than a 13 yo boy. There is not way a 13 you boy is going to out shovel a 16 yo girl.

That is completely untrue.

The best women's olympic soccer team in history was walloped handily by a team of high school boys, just a regular group of soccer playing boys that you could gather from any random high school in the US. The top female runners in the world are slower than the top hundreds of high school teen boy runners. Male weightlifters can lift many times more than female weight lifters, without breaking a sweat. Male figure skaters jump higher and rotate 4x around regularly, while female figure skaters who are able to jump and rotate 3x around are considered to be the top of the sport.

With the exception of a handful of abnormally petite boys who are experiencing delayed puberty, teen boys have stronger denser larger bones that can support more weight, stronger muscles, faster muscle fiber synapse, longer wing span, broader shoulders, more lung capacity, bigger tracheas to increase airflow, more strength, more stamina, more efficient circulatory and respiratory systems while exercising, different proportions of bone length and pelvis size resulting in different rotation ability, different centers of gravity... it is just basic physics, basic anatomy, and not something anyone should ever get offended by.

Yes, a 16 year old serious female athlete is going to be stronger than pre pubescent boys who are late bloomers at 13, but dropping the age lower does not make your argument valid. It makes it less valid.

Nor do any of your accusations have anything to to with the purpose of this thread, which is to give accolades to the many young men across this area who did an amazing job earlier this week at helping to dig out their neighbors.

Recognizing young men for doing well is not an insult to young women.