The damage being done when people insist 'boys will be boys'

The damage being done when people insist 'boys will be boys'

Society should absolutely demand more of boys - but we should also expect more for them, writes Clementine Ford. Photo: Stocksy Another small American town has been rocked by revelations of sexual abuse at the hands of some of their most protected football stars this week, and local response is sadly much as we've come to expect.

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It's perplexing how fiercely some people will defend what they see as the natural impulses of male sexuality, while also demonising feminists for 'stereotyping'. How many times have you either heard someone say - or perhaps even expressed the sentiment yourself - that it's feminists who 'paint all men as rapists', while ignoring the much more tacitly accepted belief that this kind of inappropriate and even illegal sexual behaviour in young men is just unavoidable?