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This sounds a good idea. But one of the highest reader-rated comments of the article is intriguing to me:

    Anna - Pittsburgh 11 hours ago

    ... But, this whole article just oozed misogyny. The casual
    dismissal of mothers and the harsh declaration that the female
    sex and their worrying is ruining today's young men is, in a 
    word, offensive. Worrying about boys growing up to be sissies---
    who even says that anymore outside the men's rights movement?
    It sounds to me that this guy wants to create a world for his 
    boys where girls are not allowed or, at best, are merely tolerated.
    Which sort of reminds me of Silicon Valley, actually.



I think they are more a troll than anything else.

He never called anyone a sissy.

> was putting my son at risk of turning into what used to be called a sissy

He was specifically making a commentary how the word is no longer used.

Taking the article as an entirety, it was written by a woman and ends with

> I held Kieran’s hand tightly and decided never to play there again.

But I think the writer as a female knew the story she was telling. It added to the tale told.




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