"Mother of girl involved in 'kissing' discipline speaks out"

[tblue37]

314. Or bothering a boy in a way you wouldn't bother a girl. The MRAs on this

thread are upset because it is a little boy being corrected for harassing a little girl. They are reading the punishment as an example of what they want to believe is our society's (and especially the educational system's) "war on boys."

If a girl did this to a boy--as happened to seabeyond's son as a child--they might not be so defensive about the female harasser being punished. In fact, most of us who think this boy was appropriately punished considering the specifics of this case would be annoyed if a school punished the victim of such harassment if she finally defended herself by smacking or knocking down the boy who was bothering her, as so often does happen when a victim defends himself or herself against a bully.

But I bet that if the victim of unwanted kissing, touching, and enforced isolation from friends were a boy and his harasser were a girl, these same MRAs would defend the *boy's* right to knock the female bully down as a way of protecting himself against her.

Their issue is that they think the school is being "mean" to the boy because he is a *boy*, not appropriately disciplining him for harassing another child even after having been warned to stop by her and by responsible adults.

Or maybe as someone else says upthread, they are just stirring caca for the sake of stirring caca. (Or maybe even a bit of both.)