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TFW your nephew sends you an essay he's excited for you to comment on... and it's filled with a lot of reductive comments about gender.
I know it's a bid for dialogue, and the kid is still learning, so he's relying on me to be a safe place to explore what he's thinking--which I will be, while coaxing growth...
But first, I need to sit with the irony of needing to be calm in the face of sexism so I don't affirm prejudiced views, and throw him deeper into the current cesspit of teen messaging. 🙃
@MLClark tough being a responsible adult
Right?! Even worse when you see how far some people can go *without* being a responsible adult. So tempting to follow suit sometimes!
I have now sent my nephew the constructive comments necessary to help him rethink this essay.
But my favourite part was when I got to his Works Cited section (reader: he cited no works in the main text) and saw that the *very first piece* contradicted his argument about women as "natural" nurturers. 😅 He didn't read it, clearly.
What I was thinking the entire time?
His mum was *not* a nurturer at first. But do I say that to her sprog? 🤐 Nope! I just talked essay techniques.
🙃 Now to record.