this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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Teaching our sons to not sexually harass, assault or demean women is not our education system’s job. It’s ours. All parents, and siblings and extended family members as well.
We teach our children in how we behave and what we accept without comment in our media, or in the world at large. It may be obvious to us when a guy harassing women on tv is the bad guy, but maybe the kids aren’t figuring that part out.
It needs to be called out explicitly so they grow up calling it out in their friends, rather than going along to get along.
The whole issue is culture. If boys were always taught that it's not ok by society, we wouldn't have the problem in the first place. But you need an environment that doesn't normalize sexual assault for that, which not everyone has. Introducing these topics in schools is for those kids. And then maybe that generation can grow up to universally no longer need it in school.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about children.
Kids behave one way around their parents and a completely different way with their friends, when parents aren’t around.