I was basically saying that kids fair better with two parents around than with a single parent. It’s so odd how you want to leave the father out of everything.
How do I want to leave the father out of everything? Where did I imply this? This is a trend I'm noticing in this "discussion". You implying things I never implied half the time. I've been saying 2 parents are better than 1 and now you're saying I didn't when the very post you quoted indidcated where I blatantly said so. You're being incredibly disingenuous but that's to be expected.
Who’s male bashing? Maybe this is why nothing can be communicated because it’s always received as “bashing”. Likely another symptom of that coddling I was talking about. And that’s not bashing, that’s being real. Women definitely coddle their sons.
There is a thread where I suggested that shytty black men should not be conflated with good decent black men. I was attacked for it. We have threads where other guys have said as much and they were attacked. On this board. While some women get conflated, they are checked quickly if not outright banned. And what constitutes this coddling? Just today we have seen stories where black boys are getting tortured and killed by their mothers, mothrs admitting to abusing their sons because they remind them of their ex, and so on. When I mentored children, this was very common and a recurring theme. When I worked indigent clinic, this was also a common problem as well. Child abuse, especially towards black boys is ridiculously high. Mental issues is also off the charts, with their psych issues not being treated in young black males. Suicide is skyrocketing in young black males as well as of late. But they're being coddled. But instead, let's conflate the idea of coddling with things you don't like, as you have been doing throughout much of this thread. I mean really now.
You started out even suggesting so yourself when you asked who was raising these soft men.
I never suggested that these men were coddled. Not having a father or being raised wrong in itself doesn't mean that they must have been coddled. That kind of dichotomous thinking is ridiculous. I would hope that you're better than that.
And unless another strong male family member steps in on behalf of the absentee father, they learn to be a “man“ from outside influences which can be either good or bad.
I've been saying as much but okay.
In your original comment, you asked “who” is raising these men, placing it all on the mother while granting the absentee father a pass. And you call it bashing when all I did was say this is why men are important in their son’s lives. Lol.
How did I grant the men a pass? This is what I've been saying. They are already shat on by society, the government, the law, and so on. They are already getting their criticism. The problem arises when we have people and even literal celebrities acting as if men aren't required in the home. We have literal threads where women have downplayed the need for men in the home. I call it bashing because more often than not, there is no distinction made between the deadbeat and regular men. There is another thread where I called for that and was attacked as well. I've been told that the role white supremacy plays in all of this is a "cop-out". I can quote all these posts I'm talking about and you can take it up with those people.
Another thing I find interesting is that my main issue was that you have an issue in deadbeats and potential deadbeats and the same approach to dealing with them keeps being done, they keep being talked to or talked about in a manner that has not yielded positive results. This is fact. Yet all I am hearing are excuses to continue doing the same thing over and over so some of y'all can continue bytching about shyt over and over. It's ridiculous lol.
I was speaking on the importance of a father’s presence in his son’s life.
Yet you think the mother is fine without the father. I would say she is unfit to raise that kid without a father. You would say otherwise. Where?
A woman not being equipped to teach a boy how to be a man doesn’t make her an unfit mother.
It seems like you’re conflating topics at this point.
This is a hilarious post given how much of it you've done.
And all because you don’t want the absentee father receiving any smoke in the discussion. Lol. It’s considered “bashing” him. Instead of addressing the issue of the man walking out on his child, you’re suggesting the child should be punished even further and placed into a child welfare system that’s already overloaded and about to be even more overloaded.
No, I'm saying it is not effective because it isn't. If it was, we would not be having this conversation. I've said this a few times and laid out how everything you're in favor of has not worked. The usual bashing, which has existed for the longest time, is not working. The worst part, I ask why it isn't working, and you insinuate that it's because they were coddled. Every single deadbeat is a coddled child? Despite all these cases of child abuse towards black males? Really?
I'll say it again: Bashing deadbeats does not bother me, but it is obviously not working. Something else needs to be tried because again, the old shyt is not working. The ineffectiveness, and the defense of the ineffectiveness is mind-numbing.
Somehow this is defending deadbeats though. So disingenuous. I mean really.
And I asked “why does society need to come down on the PARENT who’s caring for the child”. I mentioned nothing about them needing to be celebrated. I just asked why does society need to come down hard on them.
I mentioned such is done in general, which it is. I'm talking about reality here. And society has every right to come down on someone who was stupid enough not to use all the different forms of contraception on their end, all the post-coital means of pregnancy prevention on their end, all the pregnancy termination methods that were even supported by the government on their end, insist on using condoms and such on their partner's end. Society has every right to be a bit less than pleased with someone who ignores all those options, gets with a loser, and let him hit it raw, while knowing the possible issues that such may entail and bringing a kid into a world where he or she has the cards stacked against them and where even the mother has shyt stacked against her. Even more so if they are black.
If you forgo all that shyt and get pregnant by some loser, you're an idiot. The deadbeat is a loser as well but holy shyt how stupid can one be to ignore all that shyt. This is also why I gave a pass to women who were single mothers via divorce or by death. Those women did nothing wrong and tried to do things the right way. The fact that they tried deserves recognition.
This brings me back to my other point. I fear for the kind of person that comes from and is raised by someone who is stupid enough to forgo all that for a fukking tingle. The father is an idiot but holy shyt so is the mother. The father is getting shat on, even if it is ineffective he is getting it. The mother gets, a kid I guess.
And my question didn’t apply to just single moms. I was also including single fathers, which is why I provided the deadbeat mother example. But now that you mention celebrations, single dads who chose to lay up with a deadbeat woman actually are celebrated. Super, duper facts. You’re being disingenuous if you really claim that’s not the case. Society looks at them with googly eyes because it’s oh so precious and refreshing seeing a father with his kids. A mom raising her kids is par for the course.
Wait, a guy playing stepdaddy is different than a single mother. This whole post doesn't make sense, other than a guy who stays with a mother who sucks is somehow celebrated, which is not often the case. We call the woman toxic and tell the guy to divorce and the lady and take the kids and get out. I've mentioned a few times that divorce is separate. A guy who sticks around is not a problem either. A single father is an issue but how many problems are we seeing from them? I'd love to see the stats on those guys. Post them if you have them.
Who knows. I don’t have these problems either. But it’s happening and I live in a reality where it takes a man being around for the pregnancy to happen. Which is why I pointed out earlier it’s two consenting adults making the decision to lay up with each other. Yet you only want us to have smoke for the woman. I don’t get it either. And of course men who aren’t out here making kids wouldn’t apply to this discussion.
And again, I never said that the guy shouldn't get smoke but that the usual smoke for him is not working. Even more so, the smoke that conflates good decent men with them. This is an issue with a lot of issues. Talking about crime, it is suddenly put on all black males when only a percentage is actually doing the crime. The same goes for issues of employment and so on. It's stupid because it takes the focus off of the people who are actually at fault. In this instance, deadbeats. But look at any thread about deadbeats and it is filled with people talking about black men as an entirety and doing so in a non-constructive manner.
That said, there is a thread that highlights how abusive a single mother can be. It acknowledged that some are downright terrible towards their sons, it shows that some can be very unfair, and it doesn't peddle any silly ideas about only boys being coddled. It shows that some boys are not. And the simple message was "men, protect your seed and be careful who you lay up with". All nuance aside, it was a very good post and thread simply because it highlights an important issue. It also hints at the possibility that such kid may not have a good end. Even though it criticizes men, it does it as it should and provides excellent instruction. It doesn't come out with some bullshyt added extra condemnation that conflates the good men with shytty ones. It doesn't generalize in a negative manner. It's not laden with some laughably stupid idea or pretense that if you disagree you are coddled. The onus in the end is put on men, all men even as a call to action, but it does it well.