I’ve been thinking about men this week; not a particular man, but the very idea of men in general.
My primary role is a mother to four children; that’s complicated enough, but the part that weighs heavily on me is being a mother to 3 boys. Our boys (and all the other boys born between 2015 and 2018) have been born in to a world with the ‘#me too’ movement, the isolating pandemic lockdowns and the horrifying and alarming omni-presence of the internet and it’s easily accessible pornography and deviant ‘incel’ movement. Everywhere boys turn, they are exposed to unpleasant influences and I fear that many young boys in our society are being left to their own devices (literally their own devices eg phones and tablets etc) and the gaps we leave in our parenting and schooling, will be filled with any number of damaging online influences, which will give rise to an increasing population of unhappy, unfulfilled men.