I'd say while things are getting better in my experience with how boys are being raised, there's a large push on social media to become someone cruel, misogynistic, and only value money or status. Little Billy can be watching his Minecraft or Fortnite videos on youtube and a recommended video is going to be a compilation of Andrew Tate and dudes like that ranting about how women don't deserve respect or how they only care about money and looks and etc. He'll likely click on it, and this just opens up the floodgates of videos of that type that he'll likely watch more and more of and it'll slowly affect the way he thinks.
And it's not just Youtube, as Tiktok, Instagram, and pretty much any social media platform is filled with videos and content like that as well. I almost went down the rabbit hole myself years ago, mostly due to being an insecure teen boy who didn't understand that I needed to work on myself to become someone that people will like to talk to.
The best thing to do really is just talk to your kids and have conversations about any media they may be watching like that and explain to them why it's wrong to think like that and it's not an attitude to try to emulate.
Of course, I'm saying all this as someone who's written stories where the male lead is objectively awful and clearly views the female lead as a sex object or a prize, and the female lead enjoys this, but that doesn't really reflect what I really think, so just ignore them (please lol).
And it's not just Youtube, as Tiktok, Instagram, and pretty much any social media platform is filled with videos and content like that as well. I almost went down the rabbit hole myself years ago, mostly due to being an insecure teen boy who didn't understand that I needed to work on myself to become someone that people will like to talk to.
The best thing to do really is just talk to your kids and have conversations about any media they may be watching like that and explain to them why it's wrong to think like that and it's not an attitude to try to emulate.
Of course, I'm saying all this as someone who's written stories where the male lead is objectively awful and clearly views the female lead as a sex object or a prize, and the female lead enjoys this, but that doesn't really reflect what I really think, so just ignore them (please lol).