I gave my older son a Damon Runyon short-story collection on Thursday; horse-racing touts and Liebling’s Cigar Store Indians - fun to read about, awful to live among without respite.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
they learn to hate their mothers early -- this is the key part -- and consequently they resent practices that were part of normal parenting until very recently.
where did they learn to hate mothers and other women?
they see rebellious boys with high in-group status disdain women and imitate them.
schoolteachers will tell you about little kids imitating Andrew Tate.
but that's a symptom: what's happened is that boys are learning misogynist attitudes from much older men. broadcast online grooming without pederasty (usually).
Suggesting that the incumbent use practices of parenting surrogates like television translated very badly into the age of streaming media - at the same time that the laissez-faires cheapened model of media delivery let the filth floodgates open.
Comments
The exhaustion of parenting them?
where did they learn to hate mothers and other women?
they see rebellious boys with high in-group status disdain women and imitate them.
but that's a symptom: what's happened is that boys are learning misogynist attitudes from much older men. broadcast online grooming without pederasty (usually).
it's a difficult enough task without being treated as a subhuman by one's progeny.