I didn't have a son. I had a daughter. If I had had a son, you can be damned sure I would have done my absolute best to keep him away from the cult of masculinity.

There's a a growing cult around toxic "traditional femininity" too and guess what? I kept my daughter away from it as much as I could and set her straight on what's what.

In fairnesw, it's not just shifty parenting and I'm not blaming parents, especially not more than the other factors. I am saying that patents are thr best line of defense or the best stage to push against it, but they have to see it for what it is and know how to.

They're not, by and large, because it affected them to. It was a slow boil.

Nobody wants to he a bad parent. The problem is, culturally, manhood and womanhood has polarized, been made a bigger deal than it should be, become increasingly extreme, and we are judged more harshly than ever before for failing to measure up to some really stupid ideologies.

Do you blame only parents for that, or do you blame cultural narratives, who's voices get the most airtime, churches, schools, social news propaganda, Influencer scammers, social media, the internet, etc?

It's all of it. It's not just parents.