“Another reason I am particularly sensitive to this type of behavior is because of the thousands of men and boys that I have seen in my practice over the years–I understand how negative stereotypes of boys affect them much more than people realize and the consequences of that negativity.”
We are bombarded with these messages on a daily basis in pop culture, sitcoms, magazines, because the purveyors of the “truth” in our society have owned and controlled most of the communication vehicles until …well, bloggers…have only recently started calling them on it.
Genderism and other lies were (and still are) de rigeur, and loaded with irony in their naked hypocrisy.
The slings and arrows are safely aimed at men, because in the echo chamber mindset of those who have “owned” the truth since the 60′s…they are a “safe” target.
The danger in this mindset is not the silly pretext or even its ugly result, but that it becomes axiomatic to the dogma soldiers whose daybed is snugly tucked in the echo chamber. Those who are taken aback are “out of touch” with “the Truth”…now, with a capital “T”.
So, not only are you “too sensitive”, but you are also too dense or not “nuanced” enough to be part of the conversation if you don’t blindly accept the put down.
You can apply this principle across the board in movies, TV, most national magazines, large city newspapers.
If this is a poison, it bombards our little girls as well as our boys. The answer, is to stand up and take back the truth, one blogging post at a time.
