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[dreamer_easy]

Lloyd sent me a clipping of a thought-provoking op-ed: What Does 'Boys Will Be Boys' Really Mean?

Further to Mary's story about being pressured to have breast reduction surgery: according to the SMH, "Australian women's breasts are getting bigger, a new study has found."

Comments

[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

wow - thank you for posting the 'boys will be boys' article. it does a beautiful job of expressing a lot of what absolutely terrifies me about our culture if i should ever have a son.

and i think the only phrase i hate more than 'boys will be boys' is 'big boys don't cry'...but that's a whole different soapbox for a whole different day.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[jblum.livejournal.com]

One of the best realizations I had as a teenage boy was that being around girls *didn't* make me lose my self-control.

It did however make me really, really stupid.

I had to recognize that as well -- that I just didn't have a lot of experience points in such matters, so I had to be careful how I acted. But it also means if I do say or do something insensitive, I know it's not because I'm fundamentally a bastard -- it's because half my IQ points were being bypassed by an abruptly diverted flow of blood. And that always made it a hell of a lot easier for me to apologize if I did the wrong thing, because my pride (such as it was) wasn't so much at stake.

(BTW, completely different note -- how do you get your posts to default to purple?)

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I have also experienced this blood drainage in the presence of the highly crushable.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Hasn't everyone?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on raising a young man well. I hope to follow in your footsteps should I be lucky enough to have a child.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's a kick in the pants for the factoid that women like bastards best.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

I want all the guys who think they can't control themselves at the sight of an attractive woman to line up at the the nearest vet for neutering, and stop giving the rest of us a bad name.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

In an effort to improve my teaching and my understanding of the male student (who, 9/10, will be the ones disrupting my class) and perused a book on dealing with male students that is in the teaching resource area at my school. With such gems as "you'll never get a boy to read a book about relationships and where they have to identify with the feelings of the character, so don't bother. Give them books with action instead." I put it back on the shelf in disguist. Unfortunately the authour is a disciple of Steve Bidduph, who also gets up my nose with crap like "female teachers will never be able to teach boy students properly."