We’re the generation of women who will teach their sons to act respectfully instead of teaching our daughters to beware
This is everything I stand for.
This is such a load of bullshit that I wanna cry a little. And the fact that it has hundreds of thousands of notes worries me greatly for future generations, tbh.
Look, you should definitely teach your sons to be respectful. Hell, teach your daughters to be respectful. Teach your children, in general, to be respectful to anyone they plan on dating/loving/having sexual relations with/whatever. It’s common parenting sense there. Do not assume that your son(s) is the only who needs to learn this. Everyone should. Stop gendering sexual violence/domestic violence. It only prevents male victims from being taken seriously.
But the worst part of this is the “..instead of teaching our daughters to beware”.
No....teach your daughters to be fucking aware, omg. Teach your sons this too. Teach them to have some caution in certain situations. Help them learn self defense and how to be wary of certain situations where they should have their guard up.
The fact is, no matter how much ignorant people keep spouting that ‘teach boys not to rape’ idiocy, rape will fucking happen. Violence will happen. Bad shit happens no matter how much people teach others that it’s bad. Trying to act like a person shouldn’t know how to defend themselves is bullshit.