That’s the challenge for us men. How to raise boys that will be men. Walk the line between not being a bully and not being a patsy.
When confronted with a bully, will stand up to the bully, but with the decency to walk away from slights, and brains to get away when outright dangerous without in turn being the bully or relying on their fists to solve disagreements.
We now get to do this in an ever more hostile environment for typical boy behavior and a PC realm that talks about ‘microaggressions’, while the rest of world deals with the reality of Putin, Assad and ISIS…