Spot on tyreal!!

I endorse that idea wholeheartedly!!

Lets be seeing more of it!!

I agree, I think it's a great idea. Few groups of people are in as need of advocates as boys. I've long believed they are the greatest casuality in this war of the sexes. It's one thing to be a man and listen to all the misandric crap that prevails in our society, but imagine being a little boy. Imagine being a little boy and watching men mocked and maligned while women are praised and applauded. How confusing that must be, how damaging to a young boy's fragile spirit.

There's a reason why boys are failing. Why they're not doing well in school, why they're filling up our jails, why their suicide rate is so much higher for girls. They've been neglected and ignored, belittled and scorned and nobody does anything about it. We all know the numbers and statistics, but where are the campaigns to fix any of it? Where's the overhaul of our educational system, where's the campaign to combat male suicide rates? Oh, that's right...they're only boys. The message is quite clear, 'you don't matter'....and we're surprised when we see the fallout from this.

My only reservation would be the title, but the spirit of it is good!

Boy power just sounds like a copy of girl power!

If you think of it, boys/men, tend to not identify themselves so much on a gender basis firstly, they group themselves on the basis of hobbies etc..

Skater boys, Huntsmen, dicksmiths, etc..

There was a TV program on the telly (where else?) back in the 70's and it was about the "likely lads".. Though god knows what that meant..

Likely to do what????

Great idea, Tyrael! One thing that needs to change is the example boys (& girls) see at home. Husbands are always asking their wives for permission to do ________ (go out with friends, fish, join a club). "My wife let me_____" is a common statement. Maybe I am missing something, but I never hear women say, "My husband let me_______ (join a reading club, go skiing, etc.)"

Another thing that really, really annoys is husbands publicly praising their wives while simultaneously denigrating themselves: "She's such a good woman. I don't know how she puts up with me", "She's amazing. I'm an idiot." Blah blah, blah. It's so sappy and unmanly. Children soak up things just like sponges. This kind of programming is showing boys that one day they will grow up to be saps and young girls that they will grow up to be dominatrixes. Perhaps such behavior on the part of parents is why some boys grow up to be men who don't want to marry and some girls grow up to be witches who can't find men.

Regarding the term Boy Power, maybe the term Boy should be replaced with Young Man. Girl Power isn't necessarily limited to girls. Adult women use it. (I think the Spice Girls used it, not that that means anything!!). Boys should be reminded that they are preparing to be men, strong men, not just strong boys.

Women need "girl power" and the like, because women just can't compete against men on a truly equal standing. Males don't need boy power, or anything like it, because men, even after decades of state enforce "equality", still out perform women.

My only reservation would be the title, but the spirit of it is good!

Boy power just sounds like a copy of girl power!

I agree, that's why I voted for different name.

Women need "girl power" and the like, because women just can't compete against men on a truly equal standing. Males don't need boy power, or anything like it, because men, even after decades of state enforce "equality", still out perform women.

We're not talking about men, though, FS, were talking about boys and they're not out performing the girls. They're getting lost in the system and their needs and concerns are being ignored. I agree that we don't need to coddle men in the ridiculous way we have women, but we're talking about children.

Oops, should have read the thread a bit better. Still, boys know deep down that males are the ones who really run this world. Instead of boy power, we should just get rid of that girl power shite, and things will even them selves out naturally.

Still, boys know deep down that males are the ones who really run this world. Instead of boy power, we should just get rid of that girl power shite, and things will even them selves out naturally.

Well, I agree with getting rid of the 'girl power' empowerment crap, but I don't agree that boys have that deep down knowledge. Why do you think we see so many feminized males? It's because they were convinced from the time they were very young that they were destined to grow up to be those horribly, inherently evil men and they must therefore dedicate the rest of their lives to making amends for that.

How many little boys grow up in broken homes listening to their mothers denigrate their fathers. What kind of effect do you think that must have on a young child to hear his mother, one of the people he trusts and loves most in the world, carry on about how men are *ssholes? It would be nice to think that by sheer virtue of their manness, little boys would emerge unscathed and unaffected by such things but it simply isn't so.

Boys are taught to hate themselves from a very young age. If ever there was something to stand up against, in my opinion, this would be it.

Well, even back in my more liberal days, I always knew deep down that men were stronger than women really. Men and boys are just ashamed to admit what they know, but they know deep down men just do better at so many things than women. I'm pretty certain even the biggest manginas know men are the ones who have all of the power, and should keep it.

Well, even back in my more liberal days, I always knew deep down that men were stronger than women really. Men and boys are just ashamed to admit what they know, but they know deep down men just do better at so many things than women.

Well, yeah, if we're talking about physical strength or even emotional strength. But that's not the level boys are being attacked at. They're being attacked at a much more shameful level, they're being taught that they don't matter, that they're inherently bad, that it's not o.k. to be a boy. These things transcend far beyond who's stronger or who's better at sports.

I'm not a fan of special treatment for certain groups. I think instead of praising boys, we should say nothing bad about them, or anything bad about girls, and just let the achievements of men and women do the talking.

I'm not a fan of special treatment for certain groups. I think instead of praising boys, we should say nothing bad about them, or anything bad about girls, and just let the achievements of men and women do the talking

OR, (I'm kindof a positive, proactive type ) give praise to both boys and girls. I tell all my children, boys and girl, that they are wonderful and special and are of infinite worth. I can't even imagine telling my daughter that but not my sons, or vice versa.

Well positive reinforcement for individuals is a good thing, obviously, I just think boy/girl power, is a bit daft. I think praising someone because they have a penis, or vagina is stupid, people should be praised for their achievements.

I think praising someone because they have a penis, or vagina is stupid, people should be praised for their achievements.

I agree, FS, but I'm thinking more along the lines of something to counter the negative. Currently, little boys are under attack by virtue of their gender and, as little children, they don't have the ability or resources to counter it. As adults, our obligation is to insure our children grow up in positive, healthy environments. Right now, we're only fulfilling that obligation to 1/2 of our children, our girls. I'm not about making boys into a victim group, but giving them what they should have gotten all along.