A boy who assaults once in high school may not do it again, which in some ways is good to hear. But that leaves boys to learn appropriate behavior from one another as well as the digital street corner. I slammed her!’” They’ve banged, they’ve nailed, they’ve smashed, they’ve torn up, they’ve destroyed. It all sounds less that they’ve had sex than that they’ve just returned from a visit to a construction site. Boys grow up in a world in which women are either hyper-sexualized or absent.

Source: New York Times September 29, 2018 18:30 UTC