130. How NOT to Raise a Feminist Son

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Suzanne addresses the many requests she's had from folks who’ve asked, “What do we do about our sons?” and “How can we best raise our sons in these times?”

IN THIS EPISODE:

1:50 Suzanne reads listener/reader emails

4:35 Millennial men have been acculturated to the equality mindset

5:30 A lot of women have to convince their husbands that staying home is the right thing to do.

9:10 When you're dating, find out if the man is more traditional or if he has fallen for the feminist script

10:04 Talk to your boys from Day 1 about everything they’re seeing in the culture and counteract this with truth

10:45 Model a traditional family dynamic

11:10 Do not get in the way of a father’s relationship with his son

13:30 How you talk to your husband matters, as does how you talk about your role as a mother

15:40 Honor and respect your son’s masculine nature

Transcript

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1:18.1	So today I'm going to talk about how not to raise a feminist son. I get, I've had a lot of
1:26.0	requests, I should say, from folks who've asked me something along the lines of, hey, what do we do about our sons, right? How can we best raise sons so that they become men? And there's just a whole slew of comments and from different social media platforms and emails that I get.
1:52.6	I have chosen two to read to you, one from YouTube, one was a direct email from two women to give you a gist of where I'm going with this and then I'll get into it.
1:58.5	This one's from Keisha.
1:59.8	Hi, Suzanne.
2:00.3	I keep encountering men who have dated a lot of
2:03.2	feminist women. They seem to be used to masculine, overbearing women or women who don't even want
2:09.1	marriage and children. But once they meet me, these men claim they want to get married and have kids.
2:14.3	However, when I mentioned to them that I want a dynamic with traditional gender roles in that the husband makes the primary income for the family so that I can work part-time
2:22.7	once we have kids, these men perceive that as being a dictator over their wife, and they say
2:29.0	they want their wives to lead the family to. That's when you know you're dealing with, a feminist man.
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