Are you responsible?
Is it just me or does everyone wonder what we’re doing to our young boys?
I have a theory. Women have very strong opinions on the type of man they find attractive, the type of man they want their daughters to marry. Fair enough.
But as mothers, are we doing enough to turn out a nation of strong, responsible, stand up blokes?
The front page of the Sunshine Coast Daily today makes me sick. A 23 year old body boarder, who no doubt thinks he is God’s gift to women, has allegedly sold hundreds of dvd’s containing footage of his mates performing degrading acts on a drunken 15 year old girl.
Probably more disturbingly, the dvd has been sold through surf and body boarding shops in south east Queensland and New South Wales.
Teenage boys are the most likely consumers of surf dvd’s…
I think we have all watched in horror at the Diane Brimble case. A group of depraved thugs who hunted in a pack, happy to support each other in drugging and debasing women, at least once with fatal results.
I think the most depressing part of that story is their complete lack of remorse. To the so called ‘men of interest’ in the Diane Brimble case, that poor lady remains little more than ‘an ugly dog’.
Someone raised those men. Someone taught them that women don’t matter, that other people’s feelings and safety are irrelevant.
I want you to look around you today, look at your sons, think about what their values are. Are your boys’ kind? Generous? Do they think about the needs of other people? Are they brave? Do you trust them to do the right thing?
Would your son stand up for a 15 year old drunk girl being filmed by a group of older blokes? Would he drag Diane Brimble out of a ship’s cabin and get her help?
Look at your son. Ask yourself if he’s that kind of boy? Because that’s the type of man we need him to be.
I have a theory. Women have very strong opinions on the type of man they find attractive, the type of man they want their daughters to marry. Fair enough.
But as mothers, are we doing enough to turn out a nation of strong, responsible, stand up blokes?
The front page of the Sunshine Coast Daily today makes me sick. A 23 year old body boarder, who no doubt thinks he is God’s gift to women, has allegedly sold hundreds of dvd’s containing footage of his mates performing degrading acts on a drunken 15 year old girl.
Probably more disturbingly, the dvd has been sold through surf and body boarding shops in south east Queensland and New South Wales.
Teenage boys are the most likely consumers of surf dvd’s…
I think we have all watched in horror at the Diane Brimble case. A group of depraved thugs who hunted in a pack, happy to support each other in drugging and debasing women, at least once with fatal results.
I think the most depressing part of that story is their complete lack of remorse. To the so called ‘men of interest’ in the Diane Brimble case, that poor lady remains little more than ‘an ugly dog’.
Someone raised those men. Someone taught them that women don’t matter, that other people’s feelings and safety are irrelevant.
I want you to look around you today, look at your sons, think about what their values are. Are your boys’ kind? Generous? Do they think about the needs of other people? Are they brave? Do you trust them to do the right thing?
Would your son stand up for a 15 year old drunk girl being filmed by a group of older blokes? Would he drag Diane Brimble out of a ship’s cabin and get her help?
Look at your son. Ask yourself if he’s that kind of boy? Because that’s the type of man we need him to be.
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