STOP LYING About Our Sons
Boys are not bad. Boys do not need to be fixed. Boys do not need to be more like girls. And no matter how many lazy pieces of faux-journalism appear that shame our sons as inherently toxic and expendable, we will fight to ensure that they know that the culture is lying to them.
My life would not be what it is without the men who have and continue to bless it.
I never thought we would reach a point where it was commonplace to hear social commentators, journalists and presidential candidates awfulize boys and men — our fathers, brothers, husbands and sons — simply because they are male. There were always those fringe women’s studies professors and radical feminists who made their living by hating on men but I couldn’t have imagined that such ugliness would infect the public discourse and be lauded as brave, let alone enlightened. It is not enlightened. In fact, it is woefully uninformed. And it is cruel.
- Men are 3.54 times more likely to die by suicide than women.
- Women currently outpace men in obtaining associates degrees, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and PhDs.
- Boys are more than twice as likely to get suspended from school and almost three times as likely to be expelled.
- Boys represent two thirds of the special education population. Almost 80 percent of these boys are Black and Hispanic.
- 60 percent of high school drop-outs are male.
While others make a name for themselves awfulizing males, we moms of boys will tell our sons every single day not to believe the lies. And we will stand up for the countless boys across our nation whose lives are being irrevocably damaged by a culture that tells them they are inherently bad and unworthy of the opportunity to live their best lives.
Enough.
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