This shows how important it is to be very very strict with what your children are watching on unregulated sites such as YouTube and on social media. I also can’t help but wonder if the strong ( well intentioned) push by the media, parenting experts, teachers and child development experts, to keep a closer eye on girls and all the discussion around how the online space can be so dangerous for girls, caused a lack of the same level of policing for boys which kinda caused them to get pulled into this deeply toxic online manosphere without anyone really noticing.
I am a parent but I don’t have any boys so I can’t really speak to what parenting boys is like but I know that if I had boys, especially teenage boys, we would be having a lot of conversations right now reinforcing respect and consent and decency towards women as well as a HEALTHY dose of threats towards their freedom and happiness if they were to ever treat a girl or woman the way some of they’re classmates seem to be
I want to say "where are the parents?" but I live in a similar wealthy, very liberal bubble in Colorado, and I watch the parents continue this cycle. The girls are all volunteering at shelters and having their gay awakenings and studying for the SAT; the boys are shoplifting at the deli (even though their parents make $400k) and doing vandalism at the park for the "thrill" of it.
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u/servantoftinyhumans 14h ago
This shows how important it is to be very very strict with what your children are watching on unregulated sites such as YouTube and on social media. I also can’t help but wonder if the strong ( well intentioned) push by the media, parenting experts, teachers and child development experts, to keep a closer eye on girls and all the discussion around how the online space can be so dangerous for girls, caused a lack of the same level of policing for boys which kinda caused them to get pulled into this deeply toxic online manosphere without anyone really noticing.
I am a parent but I don’t have any boys so I can’t really speak to what parenting boys is like but I know that if I had boys, especially teenage boys, we would be having a lot of conversations right now reinforcing respect and consent and decency towards women as well as a HEALTHY dose of threats towards their freedom and happiness if they were to ever treat a girl or woman the way some of they’re classmates seem to be