DD (14) has just gone in to Year 10. She used to have quite a lot of friends that were boys in Years 7 and 8 but throughout the course of Year 9 they have all slowly become horrible, sneering, offensive little shits. DD says that individually and singularly she knows that they are still nice boys deep down but that collectively they have turned in to really unpleasant personalities. They express deeply sexist and misogynistic views on women, objectifying then based on their looks. They constantly make homophobic and racist comments. They are condescending and patronising of anything that falls outside of their incredibly narrow set of interests/past times/music tastes. All bad behaviour is just passed off as “lads will be lads”. DD is despairing. She misses having male friendships but can’t stand the way these boys behave. Is this something that 14/15 year olds grow out of? Or does DD’s school year unfortunately have a high proportion of twats in it? I’d just like to add that DD goes to a high achieving very strict Roman Catholic school so it’s not a failing on the schools part.
DD is 14 and she says it’s just an accepted thing now that boys will ask for nudes on Snapchat. It really concerns me what kind of a world our youngsters are growing up in and that boys already at such a young age hold such disdain for women.