What does this even mean?
Posted on 08/09/2024 4:31:11 AM PDT by DoodleBob
I heard a story once about mom not allowing her sons to play with boy toys. They got ahold of the barbies, broke one of their legs off and had toy guns.
Now now you MAGA people…get with the times.
“Spinster” is the verbal embodiment of patriarchy. Toxic masculinity in seven letters.
In the re-education gulag, you’ll learn it is NOW called “Otherhood.”
I’m not kidding.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4256516/posts
SMH
Girl power...Is there any other empowerment that ends up being abused as much as “girl power”? There’s the right kind and then there’s the wrong kind.
The new toxic masculinity involves testosterone injections for confused biological females.
That’s gold. I literally laughed out loud.
https://www.todaysparent.com/kids/preschool/the-debate-do-you-let-your-kids-play-with-toy-guns/
I suppose in a perfect world, a blissful state of pure parenting theory, I would not want my son to play with toy guns. I would prefer for him and his friends to pretend to organize conferences for world peace instead of destroying massive, unreal armies of faceless enemies with imaginary artillery. But parenthood is the phase of life when you realize just how little your preferences matter. Little boys with guns are yet another moment when beleaguered resignation is by far the best course.
You may not want to buy your son a gun. You may forbid toy guns from your house. But if you have a boy, and you buy a banana at the grocery store, he will find a way to turn it into a gun. I have seen boys at my son’s daycare fold over Barbie dolls to turn them into pistols. Boys will use a leaf pile to mimic the explosions of grenades. They will turn gift-wrap tubes into bazookas. At university, I was told that these actions were the result of “cultural expectations” imposed through “social norms.” All I can say is my son sure didn’t get it from me. I don’t know a single person who owns a gun. I live in a downtown Toronto neighbourhood, where the residents’ values fully live up to any airy-fairy stereotypes you might care to impose; the kid ain’t exactly growing up in West Texas. And yet, for a mercifully brief phase around age three, whatever happened to be in my son’s hands became a gun.
Or all young men could teach Humaties at a local college. Yack!
Shes a pseudo-intellectual who thinks she sounds hip and cool. In reality, she just sounds nuts.
Thanks for the article. I’ve heard of bananas too.
I have 13 grandkids, between 8-18. Over the years we’ve stockpiled nerf guns and lots of ammo. The kids LOVE them. Even the girls. They’ll spend weekends at grandma and grandpa’s playing all sorts of gun games. I’m surprised they are still being sold. Anyway, they are a huge hit.
Cardboard boxes, tubes and duct tape make great shields and swords.
Can parents prevent their sons from sliding to the right?
Mothers just expect their sons to be liberal?
Mothers are offended if their sons turn out to be more conservative than they are?
“Femininity is figured as resilience, or the ability to flip sexist damage into spectacular success.”
If you’ve been raised on girlpower and girls rule the world and all girls are princesses, you’re not damaged because your great-grandmother couldn’t have or didn’t have to have a career.
“Dr. Robin James, who argues that central to the move toward conservatism among young men is a sense that they’re an aggrieved party — that they are being robbed of entitlements.”
“Entitlements” are always somebody else’s. People don’t see their own entitlements. Not seriously anyway — they may pretend to, but they don’t let it threaten their real privileges.
I grew up in a lefty community—but my parents sent me to a summer camp where they taught shooting rifles, archery etc.
I began to suspect it was reverse psychology.
When a little kid like I was feels the recoil from a long rifle there is nothing “fun” about it.
Then I got to listen to the counselor tell me what a lousy shot I was.
Lol.
And the husband, “Gray”, a humanities professor. Oh boy.
Why is it only bad in her world for White men to feel aggrieved? I’m guessing she supports every other grievance groups right to feel like a victim.
“Anyway, I’ve tried to raise my sons in a spirit of loving gender agnosticism if not neutrality, while of course honoring their passion for trucks, the NFL, and bag-tagging each other at every opportunity.”
A perfect example of stupidity in one sentence. She thinks she is so enlightened while advancing stereotypes in the same breath. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
And, what the heck is “bag-tagging each other”? She’s a failure as a mother and I feel sorry for her kids, but it looks like the children are thankfully overcoming their upbringing by rejecting their mother’s radical leftism.
“Anatomical graffiti”
Tatoos, nose rings, etc?
I won’t wade through this avalanche of gobbledygook but it had no point whatsoever. I’m not sure any of this nonsense was even English.
Thanks Bob, you posted it and I read the whole thing.
WOW, I can't believe that I did.
The next time, I'll give it to Mikey.
So much soul searching, hand wringing and mental masturbation...I need a shower {and I had one this morning}.
Well, she IS French-Canadian….
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