A piece by the young feminist Poppy Sowerby for Unherd. The top comments are from Sandra Harrild (217 upvotes, 9 downvotes):

“Agree in the main about not blaming women alone , but the emasculation and demonisation of male rituals and behaviour that allows them to be put in their place by good older men role models has contributed greatly to the extended adolescence of men.
Come on Poppy, you can’t have it both ways.
Feminism, or rather today’s version of feminism has all but eliminated any trace of traditional masculinity which ironically enough is what is needed to make a successful father.
When Boys, especially white lower class boys are continually treated as potential rapists, what is there to grow up for? When someone cries sexual assault on the basis that they regret the drunken sex they had the night before, who would ever want to go out with a woman nowadays, let alone do anything else. [J4MB emphasis]
Boys are much more emotionally fragile than women and need an older man and, as you say work, preferably with a high content of physical activity ( boys need large muscle movement regularly; which is why they should all play sport), to allow them to concentrate and focus long term .
They learn the rules by being first dominated by and then encouraged to socialise property, with other men.
Now masculine places where they could learn this without being a pain to girls has vanished in the name of women wanting access to everything; those opportunities are no longer there.
It’s no good destroying the idea of a traditional family set up and then complaining that it’s no longer there. [J4MB emphasis]
The set up worked so well because it allowed women to concentrate on the child for at least the first five or six years of its life and to make the home a stable family place.
The rule of unintended consequences has never been more appropriate.”

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