Just a Good Human Being, Please

This is an appeal to all parents, present and future, and significant adults in a child’s environment. Especially those who are raising boys or looking forward to doing so. Make sure you raise a boy who will grow up to be a good human. Do not raise him to be a man, for our definition of a man is not only skewed but also archaic and misogynistic. The recent incident of the “bois locker room” and all the horrors that are being unearthed daily have been very disturbing. I cannot fathom how these boys were driven to turn into such monsters at such a young age. While we can blame their family, the internet, and other negative influences, deep down, all of us know that we too play a small but significant part in this. We need to change the narrative. A majority of our society believes that

A man is the head of the family