James Finn
1 min readJul 20, 2022

--

I think things are getting better, but are boys still raised like this? You don't have to spend much time listening to tween and young teen boys discussing girls' appearances to understand they often feel hyper entitled to negatively judge girls based on their attractiveness (well, lack thereof) to boys.

Also, the average 13-year-old boy will call a girl a bitch or a ho in a heartbeat, and not in some reclammatory positive sense.

They're usually careful not to do any of this around girls and moms, but many of them have clearly absorbed the attitude that they're entitled to a say in how girls present themselves.

Dads often laugh it off as boys being boys, even if they would be pretty nervous about their wives hearing them tolerating it.

It's a guy thing, it often operates only in an all-male environment, and while it's less pronounced than when I was a kid, it's by no means disappearing.

--

--

James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

Responses (1)