WAR ON BOYS: Please Don’t Threaten My Son For Dating Your Daughter. “My oldest son is 16 and his life does not need to be threatened when he takes his date out for dinner. My son is 16 and yet he has enough sense to be respectful to his grandmother, his mother, his sisters, and, amazingly, his girlfriend. I, as his mother, take offense to the thought that he is some hormone-drunk sloppy boner-machine (man he’s going to hate me for writing that phrase in a public forum) who is completely blinded to good sense and morality.”

Well, you know, there are a lot of bigots out there, and they tend to stereotype the male gender. Just look at pretty much any college’s student-discipline office. . . .