Re:The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'
by hello_newman on Monday July 01, 2013 @10:43PM
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I get what she is doing. I know it must be hard, as a mom, to watch your little girl work hard to build her castles (little kids get so attached to things) only to have "some boy" repeatedly knock it down.
However, I have a real problem with this statement on the last paragraph;
"Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”
Really?
That's not fair. Just because he is a little boy who likes knocking down some girls castle, why is he all the sudden destined to be a rapist come the time he is in college? The thing that gets me the most is it is totally OK for a woman to say that about a guys.
This gem too;
"The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement."
I have no problem against feminism (I assume she is), but my only gripe about it, is it does not promote woman as equals; feminism inevitably turns into "man bashing". If men were to say the same thing, but reversed, we would be labeled as "sexist" or a "misogynist". Women, on the other hand, are applauded as "independent" or "free thinkers".
However, I have a real problem with this statement on the last paragraph;
"Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”
Really?
That's not fair. Just because he is a little boy who likes knocking down some girls castle, why is he all the sudden destined to be a rapist come the time he is in college? The thing that gets me the most is it is totally OK for a woman to say that about a guys.
This gem too; "The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement."
I have no problem against feminism (I assume she is), but my only gripe about it, is it does not promote woman as equals; feminism inevitably turns into "man bashing". If men were to say the same thing, but reversed, we would be labeled as "sexist" or a "misogynist". Women, on the other hand, are applauded as "independent" or "free thinkers".
Sigh.