For me, parenting is about love, teaching them how to think critically, and providing a safe environment. Pulling away our affection from boys as they age, because we think that this prepares them for manhood, is not only cruel, it leads to maladjusted men. Showing someone that we love them should never been deemed a bad thing.
What better principles could you have?
And how better to end the cruelty to men perpetuated by the Patriarchal system?
(And, how better to help men learn not to hate women, too?)
Oh yes - the post title? Means, "We ain't sponges, so stop telling us to suck it up."
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