I Am a Boy
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Complete Fri, Jun 24, 2022<5 mins
Society has conditioned our boys to think they are emotionless rocks.
Their experiences have been invalidated.
Their pain has been laughed at and forced into hiding.
They grow up to make the world unsafe for our women and girls.
If we can keep protecting our daughters from "damaged and evil men", why can't we teach our boys to be men that our daughters won't need protection from?
Why is no one listening to them?
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