Madison Cawthorn says you should raise your kids as Monsters.

[downnola]

I think we should name this the Steven Crowder effect.

I'll go ahead and second this. Nothing screams cowardice and insecurity more than quickly hanging up a voice call when Sam Seder jumps on screen while wearing a gun holster in an empty studio.

[Shadowferal]

Like most people, I only bothered to read the headline and not the actual article. I see no problem with this. I would've loved it if my parents raised me to be a mummy, the wolfman, or Frankenstein's monster. What's the big deal?

Well, yknow when you phrase it that way it's hard to argue at this time of the year.
...full moon *starts howling*

[Cthulhu 2020]

Pro-tip: You can be extremely masculine without being an asshole, bigot, or racist.

Unless your definition of masculinity is overly aggressive thoughtless macho sexist behavior.

Being strong, thoughtful, courteous, and righteous to those marginalized and in need is probably more masculine than the Republican vision of masculinity anyway.

[Nihilist74]

He's just mad that he has a name traditionally given to girls.

A boy named Sue heh heh.

[Egomaniac]

Yeah it's bad, but I'd be more concerned about him claiming those arrested for Jan 6th being "political prisoners" and riling up his constituents to violently free them. But that's just me.

Nah, I think I'mma stay worried about him telling parents to raise their sons to be the next generation of Y'all queda

[Xarkan]

Psychotic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1940849.html

I thought if men have lower testosterone levels it would be more logical to examine what hormone like substances (from for example plastics.. for example in toys for very small children) they get exposed to and see if that was the cause

I guess i was wrong, instead of potentially regulating how companies poison us we should just make society worse by letting boys go feral.

[minteK917]

Like most people, I only bothered to read the headline and not the actual article. I see no problem with this. I would've loved it if my parents raised me to be a mummy, the wolfman, or Frankenstein's monster. What's the big deal?

Yeah the article was about halloween, it is soon, wtf you guys.

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I thought if men have lower testosterone levels it would be more logical to examine what hormone like substances (from for example plastics.. for example in toys for very small children) they get exposed to and see if that was the cause

I guess i was wrong, instead of potentially regulating how companies poison us we should just make society worse by letting boys go feral.

We already know what lower our testosterone and fertility rates level its well researched, its a plague called obesity. Has nothing to do with how we act and all that weird shit right wingers push tho. No, being some kind of femboy has nothing to do with it, the general stereotype of femboy is slim as hell. Been a thing forever, even in ancient greece or rome some men liked being the side hoe for a married guy lol. Then the current religion hit us with the anti gay for a couple centuries, that stuff is coming back because we are out of that hell, almost.

[Santti]

Like most people, I only bothered to read the headline and not the actual article. I see no problem with this. I would've loved it if my parents raised me to be a mummy, the wolfman, or Frankenstein's monster. What's the big deal?

Nothing at all.

[Dacia Ultan]

Pro-tip: You can be extremely masculine without being an asshole, bigot, or racist.

Unless your definition of masculinity is overly aggressive thoughtless macho sexist behavior.

That is their definition. Not so much acting "like a man" as acting like a bratty, self-entitled little boy.

We already know what lower our testosterone and fertility rates level its well researched, its a plague called obesity.

...not quite. We have a stupidly lucrative diet industry, and people—especially the working class—are still getting fat; and it's easier to wring your hands about fat people than to look at the food industry. Cheap food tends to have a fuckton of sugar and all kinda of weird preservatives (and, for all we know, industrial runoff) in it; it causes weird endocrine disruptions that make people get fat and fuck with their hormones.

Anyway: food insecurity and valuing shelf life over nutrition are fucking up public health on multiple levels. And Cawthorn is a fucking idiot for blaming parenting and fronting like he's some sort of tough guy; but Cawthorn being a fucking idiot is nothing new.

[uuuhname]

Pollution plays a bigger role I believe.

plastics, weed killer, pretty much everything we use that have some sort of chemicals created in a lab.

[Poopymonster]

Anyone else notice he only and seemingly specifically urged mothers to do this? What about the dad's?

The Manly man should be out manning! He should be out working a monday through friday 9-5 job, bringing home enough money to own a house, send 2.5 kids to school, pay off a minivan, mow the lawn on Saturdays while waving hi to a neighbor named "Fred".

[gondrin]

The Manly man should be out manning! He should be out working a monday through friday 9-5 job, bringing home enough money to own a house, send 2.5 kids to school, pay off a minivan, mow the lawn on Saturdays while waving hi to a neighbor named "Fred".

Hmm, not sure about the .5 kids. Be kinda weird to see a half of a kid. But we already have the Mannings. Peyton, Eli, Archie and up and coming Arch.

[Gaaz]

Raised to be monsters? There is a merit in that idea if your sole purpose is your and your children's personal gain. Just look at politicians - 99% of them are typical monsters, some disguising it better than others. Or I should probably use the term "alpha animals". Monsters bears the mark of "evil", while this is more of an animalistic self interest. It still is Darwinism in today's world, and unless you train your offspring to "kill", figuratively speaking of course, then chances are they will become someone's food - be exploited by someone for personal gain.
This is rather shortsighted in my opinion in terms of overall structure of society and survival of humanity as we know it. We have entered the age when few individuals can become so powerful, they can influence the entire planet. It is no longer at a level of who has the bigger club. Sociopaths now have the means to dictate our social evolution at a global level. It will not be long before we will have to evolve physically in order to survive.
But in the short term, even if it sounds shitty, the notion of raising children as "monsters" does have a merit of improving their chances of making their own way, instead of being harvested as a resource. My children will be fed, will have clothes and be kept warm. But I will try to teach them to have backbone, to stand for their thoughts, to deal with problems and not make excuses. In other words, if you want a candy - earn it by washing dishes. Want to hang out with friends - have good grades. Want allowance - help with the garden. And so on. This upbringing is animalistic in nature, creating a Pavlov's dog reflex of action and reward. But I honestly can not think of a better way in today's world.

[Beefhammer]

He's just mad that he has a name traditionally given to girls.

Or that he can't walk.