The Drugging of the American Boy (2014)
The comments here don&#x27;t seem to capture the importance of the &quot;Boy&quot; part. Imagine we were mostly drugging girls. The headlines and reactions would be greater.<p>The story recalls how when Michelle Obama publicized #BringBackOurGirls, laudably promoting saving many innocent girls from kidnapping and worse, Boko Haram had been burning alive and hacking to death many innocent boys for years to little western outcry.<p>We keep changing our culture from the world our emotional systems evolved to handle. Then we declare groups sick who can&#x27;t handle the change, which happen to be boys mostly, and drug them.<p>When we create problems for girls, we ask &quot;what have we done?&quot;, recognize we&#x27;re hurting them, and try to change the culture we created stop hurting them. We may take time, but we don&#x27;t want to hurt them.<p>When we create problems for boys, we say &quot;we&#x27;ll fix you,&quot; as if they were broken. If boys&#x27; behavior was adapted to a different world than sitting in rows for most of the day, why don&#x27;t we change the culture we created to stop hurting them?