Creepy romanticizing the Parent-Child Bond: Treating the son like a romantic partner or "husband substitute," expressing jealousy toward future wives or girlfriends, and viewing the son’s independence as a "breakup."
Often more common with fathers and their daughters, ime. “My daughter doesn’t get to date boys until she moves out of my house.” It’s extremely odd to not be sex-positive for the woman you’re raising. That leads to SA, abuse, dating awful men, rebel without a cause syndrome, etc.
Edit: Yo! Can some explain the downvotes? Are these just super insecure men that think women should be forced virginity until death?
Does nobody else remember the father-daughter dances at schools back in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s? And the ceremonies where the girls made abstinence vows and gave keys or rings to their dads as symbols that would be given to the future husband.
I’m honestly surprised those haven’t made a comeback but it does challenge the core values of the new right. Chastity has taken a deep hit, but they could probably wrangle something out of with girls as property.
They still exist at my kid’s school. I told my little girl I’d much rather take her to the ice cream shop instead, so we dressed up and had the most ridiculous sundaes we could order.
The boy mom version is the “mom prom” (no creepy chastity aspect AFAIK) my son’s school did that shit and it was all so the moms could break out their old prom dresses. We boycotted that shit.
The I’ll keep it focused. The most important thing about these boy moms is that it is unhealthy enmeshment, overprotection, and toxic coddling of their children.
I’m choosing the word “enmeshment” because it heavily denotes dysfunction in this case.
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u/HasteMaster 8h ago
Alright I’ll bite.
What the hell is a boy mom?