Boyhood is not a mental illness

[The Reaper]

Fascinating.

TR

Boyhood is not a mental illness

By Marta H. Mossburg

All the employees of school districts on a witch hunt to expel and otherwise permanently punish young boys for shooting toy guns or forming their fists into the shape of a gun need to read “Back to Normal.”

The purpose of psychologist Enrico Gnaulati’s 2013 book is to argue how ordinary childhood behavior is often misdiagnosed as ADD, ADHD, depression and autism – frequently with life-long, disturbing consequences. But along the way he raises the taboo question of whether we “label boys as mentally unstable, behaviorally unmanageable, academically underachieving, in need of special-education services, or displaying behavior warranting school suspension just because their behavior deviates noticeably from that of the average girl?”

He adds, “In a sense, girl behavior has become the standard by which we judge all kids.”

He cites numerous studies showing that typical boy behavior – wrestling, rough games of tag, good guy/bad guy imaginative play that involves “shooting” – are condemned by preschool and elementary school teachers, the vast majority of whom are women, without the behavior being redirected appropriately to release boys’ “natural aggression.” Boys who play in the way noted above are not on a path to mass murder, contrary to what zero tolerance school policies suggest. For the vast majority of them, they are simply on the path to manhood. I wonder how many of us who recognize that truth still stifle our boys’ rough play or cowboy shoot outs out of fear of the new rules – reinforcing the capriciousness of regulations in young minds who will one day asked to make them.

Without changes to rigid policies and attitudes about what constitutes good behavior, we will be on a path as a society to generating mass confusion and depression in boys whose natural tendencies are being relabeled as criminal traits or medical problems that need to be treated.

Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2013/10/boy...#ixzz2i60LwXIl

[Trapper John]

The "Thought Police" takes on many forms. Just another example of that IMO.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

He adds, “In a sense, girl behavior has become the standard by which we judge all kids.”

Hear, hear.

[TrapLine]

Thank you, Sir. I just sent this on as a reminder to the wife.

[Pete]

I'll give him a "Home Run" on that one.

[MR2]

But being a so-called Progressive is.

[GratefulCitizen]

Feed them plenty of phytoestrogens.
Pollute them with plenty of xenoestrogens.
Deny them saturated fats.
Feed them plenty of sugar to make them fat (raising aromatase levels).

Suppress and stunt the development of their natural tendencies.
Indoctrinate them with the attitude that fighting and/or violence is never justified.
Medicate or prosecute the ones who won't be suppressed.
Promote a culture where irresponsibility is equated with masculinity (discouraging achievement).

Herd animals are much easier to control when the males are castrated.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen

Herd animals are much easier to control when the males are castrated.

There's the rub.

lol ...and the libs wonder why the world has no respect for us, anymore.

Penis envy has progressed to the point to where a girl can get an addadicktome and nobody thinks she's misguided. (They better not-that's a hate crime.)

Boys ride broomsticks for fun.

The standard white male actor in TV commercials is a simpering fool, afraid of his wife/significant other/life partner-whatever she wants to call herself.

Heather can have two mommies, two daddies, one mommy and one daddy who used to be a mommy, or the reverse, and you better not think that's strange, either.

Wanna be cool for the ladies in today's society? Be a homosexual hiphopper.

Freaking Bush!

[afchic]

Originally Posted by Dusty

There's the rub.

lol ...and the libs wonder why the world has no respect for us, anymore.

Penis envy has progressed to the point to where a girl can get an addadicktome and nobody thinks she's misguided. (They better not-that's a hate crime.)

Boys ride broomsticks for fun.

The standard white male actor in TV commercials is a simpering fool, afraid of his wife/significant other/life partner-whatever she wants to call herself.

Heather can have two mommies, two daddies, one mommy and one daddy who used to be a mommy, or the reverse, and you better not think that's strange, either.

Wanna be cool for the ladies in today's society? Be a homosexual hiphopper.

Freaking Bush!

You need to get out of your cave a little more often. Your analysis of women needs ALOT of work. Maybe if you ventured outside your comfort area, you might find that there are more of us that are the antithesis of this, than the norm you seem to think we are.

[GratefulCitizen]

Originally Posted by afchic

You need to get out of your cave a little more often. Your analysis of women needs ALOT of work. Maybe if you ventured outside your comfort area, you might find that there are more of us that are the antithesis of this, than the norm you seem to think we are.

Not at all what I inferred from Dusty's post.
Not saying you're wrong, just saw something different.


Sounded like he was lamenting the lack of traditional male role models and the promotion of "male" role models which have not been proven to lead to stable, successful societies.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen

Sounded like he was lamenting the lack of traditional male role models and the promotion of "male" role models which have not been proven to lead to stable, successful societies.

Which are?

Richard

[ddoering]

Ward Cleaver, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronsan......

[Richard]

Originally Posted by ddoering

Ward Cleaver, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronsan......

And they "led" what society?

Representative of an "ideaized Hollywood society", perhaps, but...

Richard

[GratefulCitizen]

Originally Posted by Richard

Which are?

Richard

There is a limit to how far inference can be extended.
My inference of Dusty's post might be incorrect, we'll have to ask him.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen

There is a limit to how far inference can be extended.
My inference of Dusty's post might be incorrect, we'll have to ask him.

What does it matter? You can't explain things to women.

afchic's always been a little sensitive about the chauvinism thang, and it's understandable, given the position she's attained in what was once a male-dominated society. But, since I'm not in the Air Force, I think I'll go ahead and speak my mind.

Your take on my comment is almost completely accurate, however-I feel the same way about the appointments of certain women to positions of political power as I do about Affirmative Action; I think some horrendous mistakes were made.

I also think the emasculation of the American male by the press and the education and entertainment industries is in full swing and way out of hand.
An exception would be the hero-worship afforded certain sports figures and others who are lauded for spawning numerous children with different baby-mamas.

I also believe educators should allow boys to be boys and girls to be girls instead of doing what the OP discusses. Of course, I'll gladly ammend my views when the first NFL MVP trophy is handed out to a wench.

I can think about anything anyway I want to, still-right? Or did that get changed while I was huddled in my cave eating Bronto-burgers?

I'll put Mrs. Dusty up against any female in the categories of intelligence, capability, judgment, integrity and kindheartedness, and she would excell-but she doesn't feel she has to prove to the world that she's not only as good as me, but better.

She's just comfortable in her own feminine skin.