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I’M FEELING GIRLY JUST READING THIS: The real boy crisis: 5 ways America tells boys not to be “girly”

Salon.com‘s Soraya Chemaly will make you lose your lunch with this opinion piece. Your comments are encouraged.

While more and more parents are openly grappling with how to handle “non-conventional” gender behavior in children, many others won’t even consider the behavior as remotely acceptable.  The policing of boys’ gender expression doesn’t require parents who yell, “Stop crying, you sound like a girl!” or homophobic classmates hurling some variation of “Don’t be so gay!” (which is, sadly, still a serious problem). A whole range or rules, traditions, daily interactions and media content come together to narrow boys’ options and, ultimately, abilities. Consider these five everyday ways that boys are taught first not to look like girls, not to be like girls, not to do “girly” things, and then, ultimately, to lose the ability to feel compassion.

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3 Responses to I’M FEELING GIRLY JUST READING THIS: The real boy crisis: 5 ways America tells boys not to be “girly”

  1. kaptain October 4, 2013 at 9:00 pm #

    the pussification continues….

    • Daniel October 6, 2013 at 8:22 am #

      This bitch apparently has not been laid in awhile and has decided to take on all the future men in the wold. Dam I hope she does not reproduce.

  2. Truth,lookitup October 6, 2013 at 11:30 pm #

    She’s involved with “global anti-semitism organizations” that are strongly pro-feminist, pro-jewish, and anti-masculine. Strange how those things are linked.

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