Men are taught to desire women, but before that, boys are taught to hate girls and everything associated with girls. A friend’s son refuses to touch anything pink because that’s a girly color and he says he hates girls. He didn’t get that from his parents though, it’s from other kids. Another friend’s little boy used…

Exactly. I don’t want to be thrown in jail or made a pariah for something I did without knowing it’s illegal/taboo.

Exactly. My university required all international students (regardless of their country of origin) to do a few days of “workshops” about U.S. culture and laws. I’m sure other schools do it too.

What’s wrong with teaching immigrants that abusing women is wrong and you have to live up to western society’s basic norms? Hell, those classes should be taught to all ten year olds, everywhere.

I have a friend whose youngest son loves Elsa from Frozen. She was probably a little freaked out by it at first, but she has been awesome. I’m pretty sure she even bought him the doll for Christmas. It was so lovely: I wish more parents were like that with their sons. It seems more acceptable for girls to be tomboys…

Not sure if you were trying to imply this, but for the record, men don’t “slack off at work to comment on websites” any less than women do. It’s very much a gender-neutral pastime.

That is probably the most pervasive bits of misandry on the planet, but that was a recent immigrant speaking, not an educator.

Definitely and it should start in preschool. When I was in seventh grade I remember, very vividly, during a game of dodge ball for christ’s sake, one boy proudly claiming that all girls secretly want to be raped. I can’t remember the context of the whole group conversation, but I remember his smugness in stating this…

Maybe they should teach all men that sexual violence and rape are not okay.

“Hey, girls, remember: When a boy hurts you, it means he cares.”

I’m always puzzled when western feminists tiptoe around the problem Arab/Muslim misogyny. Acknowledging that Arab misogyny has different contours than western misogyny and that men raised in cultures in which women are brutally subjugated are likely to clash with a culture which strives for gender equity isn’t an…

“Remember, boys: You’re too fucking stupid to ever possibly think before you do anything. But hey, at least you’re better than girls. lol”

I’m for this (with caution). I worked in a Swedish pre-school in a fairly multi-cultural area of Stockholm, and we once had a minor issue when a Dad from a patriarchal society kicked off when he saw his son running around school in a princess dress. (Swedish gender neutrality means not that we don’t have princess…

But remember, despite the fact they can be driven into a rapey, violent rage by a smile, direct eye contact, or a flash of female wrist or ankle, men are still the wisest, most capable, and most well-suited for leadership than women are.

Jezebel’s masthead and its community manifest clear cohesive views on some subjects (for example, there’s a pretty uniform consensus here that “teaching men not to rape” is okay and even vital at American universities).

As the mother of 2 boys, I’m becoming very aware of the weird way we teach them things. At my son’s playgroup a dad got super angry at his son when he got into a tussle with a little girl over a toy. He was yelling “you never hit a girl” at his kid. And I was just thinking “Dude, why not teach him not to hit ANYONE.”

Good. We shouldn’t be afraid to tell other cultures that have a stupid tradition or belief that it’s stupid. If you believe that a woman is yours for the taking, it is a stupid belief. Don’t pander.

I mean, it should be presented as a legal lesson as well for people coming into a country. “Look, just because it might have been acceptable for you to beat your wife and daughters back in Afghanistan doesn’t mean that it’s acceptable here and suspicion of abuse often results in children being taken away from parents…

Please immediately deploy this modern Goofus and Gallant program to middle schools over here thank you.

“Men have weaknesses and when they see someone smiling it is difficult to control,”