This Video Reply To The Steubenville Rape Case Will Give You Hope For Humanity
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Depending on the age of your kids, and how much they have heard about the case from the news, I think this video is an excellent teaching tool to show your boys. The main message is how we need to stop making excuses that enable and normalize rape culture. I have made the argument before that it’s all well and good to teach our daughters how to protect themselves, we need to also focus our parenting energies on raising boys who don’t rape women. When men speak out against rape, and rape culture, and sexual harassment, it shows boys that not every man thinks it’s cool to treat women as objects, as playthings, as “less-than.” Women are pretty vocal about these topics. The more men who are as vocal as women are shows boys that this just isn’t a problem that effects women, it effects everyone.
I want to see more videos like this, and more articles written by men, and more men just speaking to their sons and friends about rape. Women have done this for ages, it’s great that more men are doing the same.
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