Support for violence to resist feminism was highest among adolescent boys (28%), followed closely by adolescent girls (21%).
Perhaps most alarming: roughly 40% of boys aged 13 to 17 agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.
These results raise crucial questions going forward. We don’t yet know how these views have changed over time, whether they are on the rise and what the links are between violent extremism and the negative treatment of women.
People who are treated like outcasts behave like outcasts. The judgment becomes self-fulfilling.
The solution to this problem is inclusiveness and socialization, not further judgment and ostracization.
Its not anyone else’s job to fix you.
There’s an old saying: “the child who does not receive the warmth of the village will burn it down to feel warm.”
The absolute audacity to vilify people/put them on blast constantly (bonus points for single mothers and having worse raising outcomes than single dads e.g.) and then act all high and mightly and demanding they “pull themselves up by their boostraps”.
It is not any one individual’s responsibility to fix any other particular individual, true.
Rather, it is the community’s responsibility to care for the community. All of the community.
If you start declaring some members of the community to be undeserving of care, then you are no better than the fascists.
How very American of you.
I agree with the statement at face value, but add, without a proper support system, its impossible to do the inner work for yourself. We need external support, and we have to try for ourselves.
The whole, lead a horse to water but you cant make them drink. Dont mean we shouldnt still help em get to the water.