Since the story broke, I’ve heard a lot of people ask, “How could this have happened?” I’ve also seen the national conversation focus almost entirely on consent education as the answer. Are we teaching consent early enough? Are we teaching it right?
Most parents I know have had the consent talk with their sons. I hear age-appropriate versions of it on the playground. Schools teach it. They should.
Our sons know about consent. The real question is: Do they know how to be brave? Knowing about consent is one thing—living by it is another.
We don't know what each of them saw or did, or why it took so long for anyone to step in. Some legal experts argue those members who didn’t can't be charged with a crime, because they had no legal duty to intervene.
Years ago, I gave a TED talk arguing that we raise our boys to be brave and our girls to be perfect. I wrote a book urging girls to take more risks. I assumed boys had bravery covered. “They’re good,” I’d say to myself.
Too often, we tell young boys that courage means physical risk: run faster, jump further, climb higher. The manosphere sells an even more dangerous version: that strength means brute force and a real man answers to no one. Neither of these stories leaves boys with a script for the moment when the hardest thing to do is use their voice.
The masculinity crisis is real. And it’s a crisis of courage that we helped create. We spent years teaching young men what not to do, and too little time teaching them what to do when someone else is doing it.
So practice at the dinner table. Ask your son what he would type in that chat, and who he would call. Tell him you know he is capable of being brave. Tell him you would rather he lose his friends than his character.
If you are a mom and a survivor of sexual assault and feel ready to share your story, consider telling your sons, as well as your daughters. For generations, these conversations have focused on teaching girls what not to do. Our boys need to hear their mothers’ stories, too.
We can show them that bravery doesn't always feel good and speaking up can be hard, but both feel better than regret.
Somewhere, a boy is about to read a message that turns his stomach. I want him to be brave enough to do more than turn his screen off.
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