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Lemmy has a sexism problem (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/feminism@lemmy.world
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I couldn't believe my eyes seeing this advice to teach young boys to hit girls so as to restore the boys' self esteem and pride.

This is the kind of toxic belief that shouldn't be allowed to proliferate here and yet is embraced with open arms by other users.

That boys can only regain their pride and self esteem by hitting girls leads directly to more violence against women and girls.

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[–] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gender is a concept that kids are just learning about at that age. I don’t read this as a “fix your problems by hitting girls” and I don’t think that’s the message that would be received. The received message, by a 4 year old, is “hitting people is ok” and that’s unacceptable.

Any self defence trainer will make it clear that it’s not acceptable to hit anyone who isn’t a threat or consenting.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 week ago*

    The received message, by a 4 year old, is “hitting people is ok” and that’s unacceptable.

    Yes it's unacceptable. And it was entirely unnecessary to add in "It's not like a grown man hitting a woman" and then talk about repairing this boy's self-esteem.

    It's incel talk to equate hitting a girl with restoring pride and self-esteem for this little boy.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    The context (post was a day or two ago) is that the girl in question routinely physically attacks the boy, the teachers aren't stopping it, and it's gone on long enough that the boy is expressing a fear of going to school/kindergarten/whatever to their parent.

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