They see they can get an advantage that otherwise would have been denied to them.

I believe that power and authoritarianism are a powerful drug. It can affect even the most egalitarian male out there.

They are basically cowards just like other cowards.

if women stayed home.

I’m sorry, but I got no tolerance for these boys. Even though I know teenage boys like to rebel. Find something else to rebel about kids.

Just read "Invisible Rulers," by Renee DiResta. Dang. This thing is a whole lot bigger than I am.

all these scared little boys afraid that girls would beat them at their own game

especially gamer websites where boys and young men are captured by relentless and very effective propaganda, perhaps utilized by military intelligence psyops veterans.

where the male students feel free to harass even their female teachers.

Think of how many of them are going to land in jail for forcing themselves on women.

will it be under such an all pervasive permission structure for "my choice" pieces of shit now?

They are already crystal clear that they are more than fine with making a rape be ongoing for at least 18 years and 9 months.

daughters, if they want to take legal action.

Conservative parents, however, will probably take care of the issue, using their fists.

Peer pressure dictates that you fall on board and in line or you risk becoming the outcasted pinko fairy pussy boy/man.

For a male being a trDUMPee is a required and fashionable statement,.. like wearing Reebok sneakers to impress your fellow brethren.

The hip a go go thing to do.

I bet there will be much abuse of anyone suspected of being gay.

This isn't just a crime against women.

slightest appearance of being gay. If you didn’t know any better, there were basically no gay people in our school at all

the ones who swung this election. Yep. Poor things. They've never gotten a break, ever. Why, I was remembering back in the early 80's when I was the first officer on the local police force and how easy it was for me to just slide into the position. I recalled the time I went to arrest a woman and ended up in a fight doing so. When an officer is being attacked, it's normal for all the other officers on shift to respond. Which they did. And you know what they did once there? Watched the "cat fight." A group of sorry ass white, male cops stood around watching the "cat fight." But hey, now we must feel sorry for poor, disadvantaged white men. Their votes took bodily autonomy away from women. To say I'm pissed is an understatement.

Basically, their male colleagues hoped they'd be killed.

While these are just observations within our own high school, we believe that this is happening across the country. Young, well-off white boys from liberal families are being tempted by conservatism simply to protect an archaic idea of masculinity that guarantees them inherent power. It is not as if they are against abortion, or care much about the economy or immigration, or even feel remotely attracted to the rest of conservative dogma. But clearly, a shift back toward traditional gender roles is resonating with them now as progression toward female empowerment threatens their already delicate self esteem.

remedy, especially in states with draconian abortion laws on the books? The guys think they can do anything they want with no recourse - but if the legal system is involved, it can make those "boys" legally responsible for their offspring whether they want it or not.

They just think they want to return to "the good old days", but back then, young men's lives and future prospects were often ruined by causing an early pregnancy that they were forced by norms societally to step up.

I don’t recall spending a lot of time as a 12 year old or HS student debating politics with my friends after school on Friday nights. The hyper politicization of kids is another American tragedy.

preferred, and a middle school social studies assignment to write a speech that one of the presidential candidates that year might give.

Upper middle class white suburban middle and high school in flyover country. We had assignments for things like that but it’s not what we talked about or did outside of school in social settings.

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Definitely different than where I grew up but interesting.

1984, 8 years old -- "Do you think Jesse Jackson can really be president?"

1986, 10 years old -- "Do you think the Soviets can really attack us like in that Red Dawn movie? Should we start war with them first?"

1988, 12 years old -- "What's the big deal about that candidate in posing in the tank? What about that other candidate who had to drop out because all his private business was in the news??"

1992: " How cool was it to see Bill Clinton playing saxophone on Arsenio and hosting a Q+A on MTV?!?"

That really surprises me and I guess it disturbs me a little, too.

I would say that the lack of interest in and knowledge about politics by kids is the American tragedy.

I’m disturbed by little kids being so deeply invested in our presidential elections to the point that the outcome damages their mental health, as mentioned in the OP.

There is a long international tradition of youth involvement in politics.

The potential damage to mental health discussed in the OP does not come from involvement in politics. Rather it comes from the actual threat they are under, caused by political demagoguery from the right, and certainly enabled to at least some extent by the lack of knowledge about history and lack of interest and engagement in politics, the very thing you seem to be advocating.

People are not upset about the outcome of the election as though the sports team they were cheering for lost, but rather they are upset about the real world consequences of the rise of a vicious political movement. I would expect every Democrat to to fully understand that.

Many will eventually realize but I don’t hear too many stories of it. I’m sure there are some clueless Dems out there.

Wonder if porn will increase now..especially on dark web?

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Strange times.

Wow. At age 16 we were attending meetings, leading marches and rallies, writing underground newspapers, picketing, reading everything we could about history and politics and on and on. So were our parents when they were that age, and so were their parents.

No More: The Children of Birmingham 1963 and the Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement

Among American children. And just because you did that doesn’t make you better than kids who did not. I’m picking up a superiority vibe.

with their pricks and are incredibly conformist, yes. Most do eventually grow out of it.

And women should learn to protect themselves. No, seriously. Learn to use and carry firearms if you want. A taser. Take a self defense course. Take several. Learn martial arts. Sucks, I get it, but that 's the world we live in. But there is an empowering aspect. As my wife responds to the new magat meme.....MY body, MY 9mm. FAFO, mother fuckers.

holding them down, are not the cause of their struggle. They should be looking at the effects of income inequality caused by the GQP. The once strong and happy middle class is gone; replaced by millions of people in deep debt or living paycheck to paycheck. It started with raygun and is now poisoning our youth.

Their minds have been poisoned.

We were asleep at the wheel while the tendrils of the manosphere and bro culture wrapped themselves around our young men. I don't know how we undo the damage it's done.