Um ... hmm ... well in answer to your first question, name calling is for children. The terms you described shouldn't apply to anyone because everyone's circumstances are different. It's just judging someone based on our own self-inflated feelings of superiority.
In the middle you bring up an important point and I think it's really something that fathers should be addressing. Fathers need to sit down with their sons and daughters and talk honestly about how men should approach and be with women. They need to impose on their sons about not pressuring women into sex, not constantly crawling all over them and "hitting on them" or basically acting like an out of control child. They need to teach their sons how to be gentlemen and treat women accordingly. Then they need to impress on their daughters not to put up with that nonsense and not let men make them feel they have to have sex. Teach them to be strong and confident women.
Then finally, they have to demonstrate it. Children learn based on their parents. As parents, whatever the situation, we need to not only talk to our sons and daughters, but demonstrate the values we talk about. Act appropriately and treat each other with dignity and respect so that they demand it of themselves and others.
I hope that was what you were looking for.
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