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Toxic Masculinity: How One Twitter Dad Made My Heart Happy
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Toxic Masculinity: One Dad Took to Twitter to Defend His Son A few days ago I was scrolling through my Twitter feed trying, and failing, to ignore the political nonsense that has overtaken literally all social media platforms. I posted some pithy comments and re-tweeted some of the dumbest things that I came across. Realizing that by doing so I was totally contributing to the din, but apparently unable to stop myself. When I came across a post by a father Twitter handle: @daddyfiles, that caught my attention and made me stop in my tracks. It was a post about his little boy being bullied at school for wearing nail polish. His son LOVES to wear nail polish and one day at school the kids made him feel bad for doing so. “They called him names and told him to take it off. This lasted the entire day.” They teased him and said he couldn't wear nail polish because he was a boy. He came home in tears and told his dad he didn't want to wear it anymore, even though he loved it. This dad took to twitter and railed against the toxic masculinity that caused […]
The post Toxic Masculinity: How One Twitter Dad Made My Heart Happy appeared first on The Single Mom Blog.
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Toxic Masculinity: How One Twitter Dad Made My Heart Happy
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Manage episode 220004738 series 2428398
Toxic Masculinity: One Dad Took to Twitter to Defend His Son A few days ago I was scrolling through my Twitter feed trying, and failing, to ignore the political nonsense that has overtaken literally all social media platforms. I posted some pithy comments and re-tweeted some of the dumbest things that I came across. Realizing that by doing so I was totally contributing to the din, but apparently unable to stop myself. When I came across a post by a father Twitter handle: @daddyfiles, that caught my attention and made me stop in my tracks. It was a post about his little boy being bullied at school for wearing nail polish. His son LOVES to wear nail polish and one day at school the kids made him feel bad for doing so. “They called him names and told him to take it off. This lasted the entire day.” They teased him and said he couldn't wear nail polish because he was a boy. He came home in tears and told his dad he didn't want to wear it anymore, even though he loved it. This dad took to twitter and railed against the toxic masculinity that caused […]
The post Toxic Masculinity: How One Twitter Dad Made My Heart Happy appeared first on The Single Mom Blog.
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