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In reply to the discussion: Tony Porter Ted talk; A call to men. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)around things like gender roles, homosexuality, etc. Also Hispanic communities. I don't have a breakdown on numbers, but the anecdotal cultural meme seems to be that AA Churches, for instance, and Hispanic cultural traditions frown on things like homosexuality and push more rigid gender stereotypes. Certainly, there are predominantly white, fundy churches that do the same, but there also seems to be a greater divide in the larger white community between the religious-fundamental-conservatives and the secular-progressive-cultural liberals.
I've said, again, clearly my experience is influenced by spending most of my life in predominantly white, progressive communities... but the stuff he was saying, again, sounded terribly anachronistic. It's not how I raise my kids, nor is it how I think too many of the folks in the circles I run in raise their kids. I'm not them, of course, and I can't say for sure. But as far as "something all men can relate to"; I think most men my age (older side of Gen X, Obama's era) can relate to it as maybe the noise we heard growing up in the 60s or 70s, and certainly some of us have consciously moved away from as we've moved away from homophobia or other outdated crap... but not stuff that we've carried over into our own childrearing.
It didn't strike me as all that personally relevant.
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