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‘How Violent Porn Initiates Young Boys in Violence Against Women’ by Gail Dines and Ashley Judd. - nordicmodelnow - May 10 2025
Adolescence, Netflix’s breakout series, spotlights how the manosphere influences boys—opening the door to deeper conversations about porn, violence and the urgent need to truly listen to kids.
“We need to view porn and the manosphere as a public health issue—not a problem for each kid’s parents to solve in isolation. Society, culture, government, healthcare providers, educators and families must hold Big Tech accountable. We need to initiate conversations with kids—including in schools—on the empirically demonstrated harms of porn. And, perhaps most importantly, we need to do what Ashley did while watching the basketball game on television, what Jamie’s parents seemingly never did: Stop what we are doing and simply listen.
It’s not enough to talk at young people. They get that everywhere. They need a good listening to—by all the people in their lives, not just parents. Adults need to create space to attune and connect with kids—to give them safe, gentle and brave spaces in which to reveal what’s on their minds and hearts, and voice their lived realities with less fear of further shame. And we need to respond to their questions with age-appropriate honesty. And when we don’t know the answers, we need to have the humility to say so. We can be vulnerable, too.
When we are not here for children, as we saw in Adolescence, they take their angst online, and heed the manosphere and porn. Men, especially, are needed—men showing up with realness and honesty, so women are not solely responsible for shaping boys into good men. To heal, we need the full partnership of authentic men, not the male personas of porn and the manosphere.”
Read more: https://msmagazine.com/2025/05/06/male-violence-porn-women-manosphere-incel-adolescence/
RE: ‘How Violent Porn Initiates Young Boys in Violence Against Women’ by Gail Dines an... - OffMyTit - May 10 2025
I think we need to teach girls to defend themselves and grow self-esteem outside of boys’ opinions. There never was any golden era when boys and men weren’t misogynists, so the idea that men are going to help women create one now is absurd.