The ability to hang with men, or making good decisions about when not to, comes from the child’s indoctrination to the world by their caregivers , what they need is confidence not vulgarity …and practice with peers counts, but lil’bitch is only good for practicing shrugging off and ignoring that kind of stuff. Where is it part of the adult world in an appropriate not immature or worse, hateful way? Maybe to vent in privacy or something. Profanity is the language of anger. To the degree kids are thriving in the mainstream culture,which I bet is what the OP wants, mastering lil’bitch comments and yo mama jokes has nothing to do with it. There are lots of amazing kids who are kind and are not embracing valuing that. Doesn’t mean they have to be humorless.
The other father was wrong to get hostile only because he didn’t teach his kid to shrug it off and tell him to decide on the value of the group , the activities they share, and the value of individual males for himself. Getting hostile about lil’bitch , because that’s the manly and tough thing to do is just as dumb as saying it in the first place.
But if I were the op I would drop the other dad from the discussion completely , Only his son’s role , his understanding personal responsibility in it , really matters.
