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If you're a kid trying to make sense of the world, these never-ending messages that there is something basically wrong with you can be unnerving, because it appears that it's all true. It's on TV, it's in the comics, you see and hear adults saying these things all the time. I don't think it's healthy to be doing this on such a widespread basis. Even kids understand that jokes are jokes, but that's not what goes on with this stuff. It's presented as science, or common knowledge. I think it's doing enormous damage to developing minds of both sexes.

You make some valid points here. But there are easy defenses against them.

1st, don't let your kids watch TV. Let them watch a controlled number of videos that you have selected that are age appropriate and don't contain nasty messages.
2nd, homeschool your kids.
3rd, find a good church and make sure your kids enjoy the kid activities and classes.

Problem solved.

easy defenses

OK, you're from the I've got mine, Jack school of cultural reform, where it doesn't matter if your society falls apart so long as you and yours are doing well. I understand how that works in an agrarian economy, and you are fortunate to live in one. But I wonder if it's an appropriate response for the rest of us, to 21st-century interdependency. If your kid reaches adulthood as one of the 15% of young men who can read, write, and think at an adult level, is that really going to do a lot of good? What is happening to the standard of living of everyone in such a place? We have social engineers deliberately dumbing down our male children. Yours escape. So what? Are other countries doing that to their kids? How will ours compete? There are countries that do that to their girls... look at 'em. Those people want to live in the 7th century, but we don't.

How does this happen? Most people are against this. Why do we have KulturKrap that 80% of the people find offensive blowing through every hole in the media and academia? Because the people pushing the crap are crusaders, and the rest of us haven't cared. Now we have Fisting Instructors in our grammar schools, and people wonder how it came to this.

Simple. Just take your kids out of school. Be a prisoner in your own country. Let jerks who have near-total opposition to what they are doing continue to run society's institutions while the rest of us hide in caves. What kind of "easy" is that?