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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Pretty much the exact same meatheads who daydream of all the grisly things they’ll do to any young man who even looks at their daughter with a disturbingly psycho-sexual fervour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

How to treat a woman... real good.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Ain’t this the truth.

The amount of women that think physical violence against their male partners is acceptable or not an issue is disgustingly high.

Is it so hard to teach to not hit people at all?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Honestly, is that what moms are doing? I have not exeprienced it. If anything, both my parents were overly worried by me hitting puberty. No "bees and flowers" talk either, they relied on my school providing that.

No, I got no relationship advice from either of my parents, other than their living examples. Which wasn't very good, as advice.

I also don't see why moms should give it to their sons, and dads to their daughters, exclusively?

I suspect what this guy refers to are tropes from song lyrics, which might come from a place of hardship, maybe a mother raising a child without a father. And now I think of it, I've heard women sing this also: "my mother told me about love..." So in the end it's about absent fathers, once again.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (6 children)

"My mum taught me how to treat a woman" is either dumb or creepy

Approaching and treating others like human beings regardless of their sex and gender? Too much to ask?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agree this is way too gendered.

Teach everyone to behave compassionately in relationships, learn to argue, learn to collaborate, learn to cooperate. Good relationship skills are what everyone needs.

The strongly gendered part is the stand against the manosphere and stand against violence/misogyny.

Also, this isn't just about romantic relationship. I would have really appreciated if anyone I looked up to showed me how to connect with fellow guys/peers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I agree, kids don't get taught a lot of really important social skills (regardless of gender.) A lot of parents seem to think that just putting their kid around other kids is going to magically teach them social skills. I admit, growing up with undiagnosed autism may have me biased here, but I also work with autistic kids and part of my job is to teach them social skills. Not every child has this resource, and although I do my best to guide the little ones I work with, I know that even neurotypical kids are thrown to the wilds, by parents who refuse to intervene in issues because "they have to figure it out themselves."

To a degree, I get it - kids need to learn how to solve their own problems independently, especially as they get older. But if parents don't provide any structure at all when a kid is young, where are the kids going to learn from? Other kids. Other kids who likely also haven't been given sufficient guidance on how to problem-solve social issues.

We need to do better for our children. We need to reinforce pro-social behavior whenever possible. I don't wait for my (work) kids to independently share their toys, but when another kid plays with something my kid really likes, I get ahead of potential issues by telling my kid, "I love how you're sharing your music box with so-and-so!" It makes a big difference in how they react, and goes to show that providing a bit of proactive praise now and then can go a long way toward building good social habits.

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