So my 7yo son has has mentioned that statements of “girl power” or “girls rock”makes him “feel small.” He mentioned this before in reference to school activities, but it’s back now that his 4yo sister is getting into things with those pro-girl messages. (contd.)

He’s always been really into “fairnes” in a seemingly legitimate way, even upset when things are unfairly biased to his benefit. We have told him the context of pro-girl messages in terms of our Millenial generation and our parents’ Boomer generation.

He agrees it’s bad that we have treated women unfairly in the past, or even right now. But, in his 2nd grade world he feels like the girls get more support and praise while the boys get the mild admonishments for being too loud/rowdy.

And having had lunch with his class in the cafeteria, and I get it, but it’s all the nature of being 7 and them all being little psychopaths and some nature vs. nurture kinda shit.

So how do we make him feel proud of being a boy, while keeping balance and not turning him into a future MRA?