COMMENT: Boys, porn and sex videos: our pathetic race to manhood
When I was in year 7 you could walk in to any one of my classes and I’d almost guarantee there’d be a pencil case propped open on a desk with two young boys giddily staring inside. They were watching porn.
But like many others, I sat around and pretended to like what we were watching. God forbid one of the other sensing you weren’t that into it. You’d be ridiculed no end for that. We just wanted to fit in.Enter the NRL sex tape scandal. With multiple videos surfacing over the past few months, and many more most likely in circulation, we’ve seen something unfold that will traumatise the women involved.
This desire to be a man is everywhere. It’s bloody everywhere. It’s in these group chats, it’s in the change rooms, and it’s in schoolyards. Just last week I was in an Uber with a stranger who thought a good idea for small talk between a couple of blokes was to describe what kind of girl they might be hoping to “drag home” that night.
These women are human beings who deserves respect. That’s enough. Or, if you resort to those lines, isn't that enough for you?
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