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When he noticed the naked little girl at the beach didn’t look quite like he did and asked why, they answered his questions in phrases that simplified gender differences to genitalia, completely ignoring scientific fact in the form of sexual dimorphism.

When one of the neighbor kids painted his nails, his parents got angry. That wasn’t something boys did. And he learned that playing with pungent chemicals without supervision at a young age was probably not a good idea anyways.

When he was handed down a pink bike from his cousin, they replaced it with a blue one, because they didn’t want him to be mocked for having a “girly” bike. And he learned that pink “girly” bikes are usually made with Wal-Mart quality and are great tools for injuring oneself.

When he was being picked on at school, they told him to stand up for himself. They did not tell him how, but they showed him stories with heroes who used fists and weapons to beat the bad guy into submission. And he learned that he didn’t have Superman strength, coming to understand the difference between fantasy and reality.

When he tried to be his own hero, they told him he hit like a girl. And he learned that girls are genetically the physically weaker sex. When he got home, they shook their heads because “boys will be boys”. And he learned that BOYS can generally be immature.

When he hung out with the adult men in the family and listened to them talk around beers and grills and whatever game happened to be on the TV, they spoke of women’s bodies in the same way they spoke about the cuts of meat sizzling before them. And he learned that both women and men talking about the other sex’s body parts is perfectly normal and ingrained in our biology as a species.

When he looked at billboards and magazine ads, they showed him both women’s and men’s body parts, altered to be impossible without a face to remind you of their personhood. And he learned that sex sells and in no way is evidence of “misogyny” or “rape culture”.

When he watched television and movies (the ones with the heroes), they always got the girl (after saving lives and performing good deeds). And he learned that saving lives and being a hero is an attractive quality.

When he watched television and movies (the ones with heroes in costumes and not), they always got the girl, even if she didn’t seem all that interest or willing at first. And he learned that people’s opinions change of each other over time.

When he watched television and movies, they didn’t need superpowers because they always basically knew whether a girl was interested in having sex based on how little she was wearing. And he learned that girls dressing sexually and displaying their body for the public for the eye to see are doing so to physically attract males.

When he took that sex ed class, they told him how to protect himself from STDs and his future from young fatherhood, but they only taught his female classmates to be careful about rape. And he learned it’s probably better to educate girls about rape as a precaution compared to letting them discover it the unfortunate way.

When he and his friends started getting into video games, they gave him a world where he could be as violent and cruel as he liked without repercussion. And he learned that video games are fantasy and that there is no evidence showing violent video games to cause actual violence.

When he started attending parties, they told him that drunk girls were the easiest, and that’s where he should start. And he learned that girls who got themselves drunk at parties were not respectable and that drunk sex = prison sentence.

When he lost his virginity, they congratulated him and asked him for a play-by-play of the carnal details, as they would with each hookup to come. And he learned that discussing personal experiences with friends was both humorous and harmless.

I could go on and on… Point is, the majority of these events followed by “and he learned” are non-sequiturs, double standards, or misleading claims that, after close examination, make zero sense. Whoever originally wrote this wasted their time. This “article” says nothing about how to fix gender issues, brings up zero good points, and is not funny either.