Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality of life in the dating trenches.

  • Redhotkurt
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    148 months ago

    I feel like this is already devolving into an almost semantic-like argument about whom to blame: boys, the men they become, societal expectations, societal reinforcement, parents, religion…can we throw the word “blame” out for a minute? I was wrong to assign blame. Blaming men isn’t going to help and is just making it worse, and frankly distracts from the real issue. I took a destructive approach and would like to rewind a bit.

    Ok, so assuming I haven’t lost everyone, how do we solve this problem improve this situation in the long term? We can all agree behavior is learned, right? So maybe agree on education (general education/child-rearing, not necessarily only formal school education), and go from there?

    • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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      108 months ago

      Maybe we stop with top down one size fits all solutions to human interaction? The article is a good example of part of the problem, as it seems to exonerate one group while putting all the onus for change on the other. Mainly by it having essentially a single position from all them people that the author uses as sources and references and the narrow scope that they actually show.

    • dumplesOP
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      58 months ago

      Agreed. No one’s to blame but should work on fixing it