daisysufo’s Reviews > Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity > Status Update

“…Sociologist Amy Schalet found that parents in the Netherlands considered boys to be both capable and desirous of emotional connection; US parents, by contrast, dismissed young men as ‘driven by hormones’ and only interested in sex.”

“Children are subject to messages that present women primarily as objects for male use, as rewards…messages that disregard women’s perspective and inaccurately represent their gratification. Parents…surround their daughters with books and movies and images of complex female characters, but rarely do parents of boys do the same: the distorted depiction of women in media is seen as a problem for girls alone”

“Fitness gurus are to boys what beauty and ‘thinspo’ vloggers can be to girls: a source of entertainment, motivation, and, potentially, self-harm.”