I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing this advice to teach young boys to hit girls so as to restore the boys’ self esteem and pride.

This is the kind of toxic belief that shouldn’t be allowed to proliferate here and yet is embraced with open arms by other users.

That boys can only regain their pride and self esteem by hitting girls leads directly to more violence against women and girls.

    • neatchee@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 days ago

      You’re the one who was trying to make a point about the pride stuff here, not me. I’m just responding to your points.

      My only point was that the original comment in the screenshot is, in my opinion, pretty obviously talking about the (very flawed, and inappropriately applied) concept of “fighting back will restore pride” and not “hitting girls restores pride”.

      • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 days ago

        Except the advice is literally to hit this girl to restore his pride and self esteem.