I Attempted to Create an Inclusive Environment for My Students. It Totally Backfired.

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The biggest problem that I have with that article is that the father chose to not publish it anonymously. And I'm horrified that editors at Slate didn't think twice about the possible ramifications on the teenage son. Granted, the author points out that he cleared it with his teenage son, but fucking hell. The son is 12 fucking years old. He's a GD child. He's not old enough to process the ramifications of this being on the internet for the rest of eternity.
We know that teens can be some of the cruelest mofos on the planet. His peers will mock him throughout high school over this article.

Slate is a major platform, so this isn't just some random blog post. I guarantee you every kid in his school knows about this piece, and know about his masturbation habits. He will be probably be bullied over this. But did his father care? Did the editors at Slate care? No and no.

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Yeah I agree that's a huge oversight on both the fathers and slates editors. Though reading through some of this stuff on Slate I must say my bullshit detectors are going off. Especially on the "help I have this problem" type stores like the main one linked here.

They're good in the sense that they seem like they are real. But maybe I just still have too much faith in humanity.

Reading this article here it's like "damn this father is a clueless fuck" so honestly it wouldn't surprise me if he's just so far up his own ass he doesn't realize the potential bullying issues. He seems pretty clueless towards human behavior, if you asked him about he'd probably say something retarded like "well my son said it's ok and those bullies shouldn't be mean to him since I've raised him to be comfortable with himself he won't be effected ".